<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 3:21 PM Rolf Turner <<a href="mailto:r.turner@auckland.ac.nz">r.turner@auckland.ac.nz</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
I am currently a Thunderbird user, and I am getting heartily sick of its <br>
slowness and various forms of recalcitrance. I get and send a lot of <br>
email and have a huge number of folders into which I sort received <br>
emails for storage. (These folders can have a fairly complex tree <br>
structure.) I find that moving messages into these folders has <br>
(relatively recently) become fraught with peril. I click on a message <br>
to drag and drop it, and very often the message seems to disappear into <br>
thin air and to end up in a location that I did not intend (or to <br>
completely evaporate).<br>
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Questions:<br>
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1. Will claws-mail allow me to get away from the flakiness I am <br>
currently experiencing with Thunderbird?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes. <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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2. Does claws-mail have message filters, at least somewhat analogous to <br>
those provided by Thunderbird?<br>
<br></blockquote><div>I think it does but I have not looked for them yet.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
3. How easy (or difficult) will it be for me to import my elaborate <br>
tree of saved message folders from Thunderbird into claws-mail? <br>
Impossible? Possible but gruellingly arduous? Piece of cake (said he, <br>
optimistically)? Please note that since I have an enormous number of <br>
saved emails to which I'd like to retain access, I would need to import <br>
them in a fairly automated manner, and not in a kludgy one-by-one manner.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>1) just guessing about this one<br></div><div>Get a Gmail account then import the feed to your account you currently use Thunderbird for.<br></div><div>Then install Claws and point it to your Gmail account. If you create filters in Gmail I think Claws will pick these up and mirror them in your Claws feed and folder.<br></div><div>or 2) install Claws and point it to your current email server(s)<br></div><div>3) re-create your filters in Claws<br></div><div><br></div><div>Its confusing for me because I have a lot of old email accounts including an active one I can not directly<br></div><div>access without installing Thunderbird so I indirectly access it with Claws and it works fine; easily manageable. <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
4. Are there any pitfalls or Traps for Young Players that I have not <br>
envisaged in the foregoing?<br>
<br></blockquote><div>:-)<br><br></div><div>Do you want to run Claws on your boot drive with the entire Claws file system existing there?<br></div><div>I do not run mine on my boot drive; doesn;t make sense. I run 3 computers with Win 7 to 8 to 10.<br></div><div>I Installed Claws on an external hard drive; all files exist there only. I run it with a special string.<br></div><div>I can plug that hard drive into any of my computers and run it with the same string. Works perfectly.<br></div><div>I recommend doing it that way.<br></div><div>Here is the string I use, change hard drive designation, folder names and paths as needed: [maybe this will work for you]<br><br>e:\CLAWS Mail\claws-mail.exe --alternate-config-dir e:\Claws Mail Config<br><br></div><div>good luck<br></div><div><br></div><div><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
I hope that these questions make sense and are not inappropriate, and <br>
that one or more of you will be able to provide me with some useful answers.<br>
<br clear="all"></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I will be interested in the replies you get to your questions. <br></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Lawrence F. London, Jr.<br><a href="mailto:lfljvenaura@gmail.com" target="_blank">lfljvenaura@gmail.com</a><br></div><div>Avant Geared<br></div><div>walnut and oak serving and kitchen cutting boards<br></div><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/avantgeared/avant-geared-products/woodworking" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/avantgeared</a><br><a href="https://www.instagram.com/avantgeared/?hl=en" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/avantgeared/?hl=en</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br></div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>