[ILUG] Mail clients

[Conor McDermottroe]

On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 10:41:45PM -0000, Gary Pigott wrote:
> http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/tips#beh_downloadstartup
> 
> Thunderbird can be configured to check all IMAP folders for new email. I've
> only got about 70 folders across 3 accounts myself and it works fine. It's
> essential if you use server-side filtering into folders. I use Outlook on
> Windows XP myself though, so excuse me while I don some flameproof overalls.
> :-O
 
Sorry, I probably wasn't clear enough. :-)

Yes, Thunderbird will check all of the folders. For a while. Then it
forgets some of them and only checks others. Then it stops altogether.
Then it starts working again. Maybe it's my IMAP server (dovecot) or
maybe it's the number of folders involved. I don't know.

I couldn't have been bothered to track down properly the exact problem
that was happening. I just got rid of Thunderbird and installed
Evolution which despite bringing half of Gnome with it works rather well
for my case.

-C