[Users] Switching from Thunderbird to claws-mail.

[Rolf Turner]

Thanks for taking the time to answer me.  Sorry for being slow to 
respond.  I've been preoccupied with some other things.

Please see in-line below.

On 11/08/20 2:28 pm, Lawrence London wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 3:21 PM Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz 
> <mailto:r.turner at auckland.ac.nz>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     I am currently a Thunderbird user, and I am getting heartily sick of
>     its
>     slowness and various forms of recalcitrance.  I get and send a lot of
>     email and have a huge number of folders into which I sort received
>     emails for storage.   (These folders can have a fairly complex tree
>     structure.)  I find that moving messages into these folders has
>     (relatively recently) become fraught with peril.  I click on a message
>     to drag and drop it, and very often the message seems to disappear into
>     thin air and to end up in a location that I did not intend (or to
>     completely evaporate).
> 
>     Questions:
>     ==========
> 
>     1.  Will claws-mail allow me to get away from the flakiness I am
>     currently experiencing with Thunderbird?
> 
> 
> Yes.

Very good news indeed.
> 
> 
>     2.  Does claws-mail have message filters, at least somewhat
>     analogous to
>     those provided by Thunderbird?
> 
> I think it does but I have not looked for them yet.

Others have said that it has such filters.

> 
>     3.  How easy (or difficult) will it be for me to import my elaborate
>     tree of saved message folders from Thunderbird into claws-mail?
>     Impossible?  Possible but gruellingly arduous?  Piece of cake (said he,
>     optimistically)?  Please note that since I have an enormous number of
>     saved emails to which I'd like to retain access, I would need to import
>     them in a fairly automated manner, and not in a kludgy one-by-one
>     manner.
> 
> 
> 1) just guessing about this one
> Get a Gmail account then import the feed to your account you currently 
> use Thunderbird for.

I'm sorry to be a thicko, but I don't understand this.  Specifically I 
don't understand what "import the feed" means.

I already have a Gmail account (that I don't use much). Different
name (the bit before "@") from the account that I mostly use (the one 
that is "hosted" by the U. of Auckland).

> 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.
> or 2) install Claws and point it to your current email server(s)
> 3) re-create your filters in Claws

I don't think that this matters anyhow since it appears that claws-mail 
has adequate filtering capabilities.

> 
> Its confusing for me because I have a lot of old email accounts 
> including an active one I can not directly
> access without installing Thunderbird so I indirectly access it with 
> Claws and it works fine; easily manageable.
> 
>     4.  Are there any pitfalls or Traps for Young Players that I have not
>     envisaged in the foregoing?
> 
> :-)
> 
> Do you want to run Claws on your boot drive with the entire Claws file 
> system existing there?
> I do not run mine on my boot drive; doesn;t make sense. I run 3 
> computers with Win 7 to 8 to 10.
> I Installed Claws on an external hard drive; all files exist there only. 
> I run it with a special string.
> I can plug that hard drive into any of my computers and run it with the 
> same string. Works perfectly.
> I recommend doing it that way.
> Here is the string I use, change hard drive designation, folder names 
> and paths as needed: [maybe this will work for you]
> 
> e:\CLAWS Mail\claws-mail.exe --alternate-config-dir e:\Claws Mail Config

Again sorry to be a thicko, but again I don't understand.  Why would I 
not want to run claws-mail on my boot drive?  I'm pretty sure that I 
*do* want to;  I want my email to be immediately and conveniently 
available.  Your discussion seems to be Windoze oriented; I *don't do*
Windoze.  (I'm strictly Linux; I run  Ubuntu 18.04.)

> 
> good luck

Thanks.

> 
> 
>     I hope that these questions make sense and are not inappropriate, and
>     that one or more of you will be able to provide me with some useful
>     answers.
> 
> 
> I will be interested in the replies you get to your questions.

I'll cc the list in answering the replies that I get.

cheers,

Rolf

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