On Mon, 14 Feb 2022 10:43:07 -0500 Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com wrote:
IMAP is just more functional than POP ever was with better security features; though Peter Resnick of Qualcomm would regal us with stories of maintaining Eudora for their CEO for years after there were other better choices, but he started on Eudora, and it was Qualcomm's product and he was going to keep using it... Worked for me!
I noticed that IMAP is SLOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW because Claws checks every folder for new mail, when my email is only filtered when I launch Claws.
I did find a way to right click on a folder and go to properties and uncheck " CHECK FOR MAIL"... So basically Claws skips over checking that folder for new mail.
I switched all those years ago from Eudora to Thunderbird, still POP. There was a nice utility to convert Eudora mail folders to that used by Thunderbird. In fact just last year an old friend was FINALLY getting of Eudora and asked if anyone knew how, so I dug the program out of my archives for him.
Over all these years I have been using Thunderbird with all its warts. But then really they all have warts.
I don't think that I could use TB... I like the MH file format, less chance of corruption.
Oh and just updated my wife from Thunderbird on XP to Thunderbird on Win10, and she is complaining on how things are different...
Good lord!!!!Your wife was still using Windows XP and had XP hooked up to the internet?
Chris