Re: Moving from one computer to another

On 2019-07-17 17:18, David Eaton wrote:

> I didn't see a post from Jeremy - did he maybe send it direct to you
> rather than via the list?

Yes, though not intentionally(*).  As soon as I saw Alan's reply
mentioning it I reposted it.


* A drawback of the webmail client I was using and being out of practice
using it for mail-list replies.  It's ages since I last used MP; I had 
to
stop after all 3 of my pcs suffered disk failures, and I found MP 
backups
were corrupt, and (back then) MP had a bug which meant it went into an
infinite loop trying to process the backups (a bug since fixed I think).
But in the short term I needed to do something else so used webmail...
and for all sorts of reasons I've not found the time/energy to start
again with MP.

I'd like to, though I'm a bit dismayed by your tale of problems with 
IMAP
and also the way that development seems to have ground to a halt.  That
doesn't bode well for, for example, JMAP (successor to IMAP) support,
let alone fixing the numerous reported bugs.

I did look at Thunderbird quite a while ago, and didn't much like it,
though I can no longer remember why.  I also wasn't wholly happy at
the idea of using an email client whose appearance & behaviour could
seemingly change quite a lot from one release to the next; I'm used to
that with Firefox and not gloriously happy the way interface changes
to follow trends rather than function.

I've also looked at the Windows port of Claws, but it wasn't stable.
Typically developers would ask for backtraces when it fell over but
couldn't tell you how to get such a thing, and didn't provide debug
symbol maps for their Windows releases.  That meant to debug a problem
you'd have to (re-)build it yourself... and that meant having to make
a linux-based build work under eg MSYS2... and it was all too complex
for me, with not enough time/energy to dedicate to it.  I do think that
if I eventually become a linux user, Claws might have to be the way I
go, but at least doing my own builds should be simpler.

-- 
Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own

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