[GTALUG] what MUA do people like? Use?

[Kevin Cozens]

On 2021-03-21 11:57 a.m., D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
> | From: William Park via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
> | Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2021 13:52:21 -0500
> 
> | I'm beginning to like Thunderbird.  It replaces fetchmail, procmail, sendmail,
> | mutt, and vim for mailing.  I miss vim, though.
> 
> I'm interested in improving my email routines.  I spend a lot of time
> with email so any improvement would be useful.
> 
> So: what do you use?  Why?

I've been using Thunderbird for the last 20+ years. Its been long enough 
that I don't remember when I started using it. Probably not that long after 
it became available as I had been using Firefox as my main web browser back 
then.

It has been trained on lots of spam and automatically filters out most of my 
junk email along with the filtering rules I have give it. It sorts my email 
messages into one of my hundred plus folders. The messages for a given 
folder are stored in mbox format. In a pinch you could use other programs 
that understand the format to read the saved messages.

There were some hiccups on occasion after some updates but I haven't had a 
problem with it in some time. It mostly just works. There is one long 
standing quirk re: undeleting deleted messages. It may not undelete the 
message, or if you deleted several, it tends to recover the message deleted 
prior to the most recent one. No big deal as the deleted one you really 
wanted to get back will be in the Trash folder.

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