[pmmail-list] Thunderbird vs. PMMail (was: alright, I've had enough ...)

[L.Willms]

On Sun, 15 May 2005 17:08:24 +0200, Robert Dahlem wrote:

> > Unless something ever corrupts your mbox or an anti-virus thingy
> > "deletes the infected file" which is your mbox.
> 
> Urban myth, dangerous smattering.
> 
> Never saw a corrupted mbox in 20 years. There is no simpler format and
> it hasn't the main drawback of one-file-per-message-format: 
> snail's pace.

  I think THAT is a myth. It is much faster just to delete a file 
instead of reorgnizing a huge text file by copying nearly the complete 
contents of it. 

  Besides, Thunderbird has problems with attached (embedded) messages. 
It doesn't show those sent from PMMail, because PMMail encodes every 
attachment with "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64", what it shouldn't 
do according to the published MIME-rules. All other eMail clients which 
I had the chance to test with did decode such embedded messages without 
problems (The Bat!, Outlook, Outlook Express, KMail (Linux/KDE), 
T-Online Webmail). 

  Then Thunderbird does not allow operations on the individual embedded 
messages, like answering it or moving it to a folder. Answering on a 
single message basis is important for mailing list "digests" which send 
the collected messages of one day in one package with "Content-Type: 
multipart/digest". 

   It seems that the Thunderbird maintainers and developers are very 
slow in repairing these problems, at least this said someone who 
submitted bug reports on this already against Mozilla mail. 

   See Thunderbird bug reports 
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=269826
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=224967
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=224967
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=226877
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=293475
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=294495

  Those using Thunderbird may use their voting rights to "vote for" 
those bugs, which supposedly increases their chances to be resolved. 


Yours, 
Lüko Willms
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Frankfurt/Main