Etiquette and changing of threads

lee lee at yun.yagibdah.de
Tue Jul 16 09:52:27 UTC 2013


Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> writes:

> Am 16.07.2013 03:49, schrieb lee:
>> Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> writes:
>> 
>>> the real problem is thread-view
>> 
>> Perhaps you'd be happier with a different MUA.  You seem to be using
>> something similar to the MUA built into seamonkey.  I have always found
>> it totally unsuited for managing more than a very few mails.
>
> i manage around 500 messages per day with thunderbird

Oh I wouldn't even think of trying that.

> with no problem, it's not thunderbirds fault making
> large threads which should be splitted in own ones

Obviously, there is a problem with the tree view in thunderbird.
Otherwise you'd be able to read threads just fine.  I have seen much
larger threads on nntp servers than in this mailing list, and there were
no problems to display them with gnus.

>> Have you tried gnus or mutt?
>
> and migrate a mail-arhcive with around 2,000,000 messages?
> thanks - no!

Thunderbird uses mbox or something?  IIRC, gnus and mutt can both use
mbox, and you wouldn't really have to migrate.

In case you would migrate, it would take quite a while to migrate the
mails to nnmaildir with gnus.  It would be incredibly fast with mutt.
You could just leave them as they are and use nnmaildir (or maildir if
you use mutt) only for the new ones.

You got nothing to lose, so why not give gnus or mutt a try.  You can
always duplicate the incoming mails so you still have them in
thunderbird as well.  If you were storing them in maildirs, you could
even run several MUAs on the same mail folders at the same time --- both
mutt and gnus can do that.

I think once you get used to either gnus or mutt, you'll love them.
They are like made for you.


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