[Speakers] Apple PowerBook WAS: Shorts
Adam Tauno Williams
awilliam at whitemice.org
Sun Mar 13 14:52:25 EST 2005
> > I haven't really used Thunderbird on OS X yet, I use Apple's Mail.app
> > instead. It's handled everything I've needed so far, even though it's
> > got its shortcomings.
> I'd use it, except I REALLY don't like the way it handles IMAP.
> I've got a ton of mail archived in IMAP folders (on the server), and it
> will downloads ALL the emails in the entire folder when I click on the
> folder (takes forever and wastes a ton of local disk space). Where
> Thunderbird only downloads the headers for each email, and then only
> downloads the actual email when I open one.
Yep, I've seen this one. If you connect to a shared IMAP folder with a
couple of years worth of status reports in it...... Better have a very
big hard drive. Another guy and I looked around for some option to
disable this but couldn't find one.
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