[Users] Thunderbird vs Claws Mail

[Alain Coulais]

Le Tue, 15 Aug 2023 10:16:53 -0700,
Peter Ehlert <pb21a at sdi-baja.com> a écrit :

> I am a long time user of Thunderbird. No real complaints, but the GUI 
> has slowly been changed.
> lately I have been struggling with that, trying to get it to be My Way. 
> Minor success.
> 
> also the .msf files have gotten Huge and that hinders rapid and easy 
> backups.
> 
> In the process I would like to do some housekeeping, fix a few filters 
> and rearrange my copious folders.
> 
> Question: do you folks recommend migrating to Claws Mail?
> the initial look and feel seems to be familiar and comfortable, but I 
> know little of the history and stability.
> 
> secondly, will I be missing the basic features such as Filters?
> 
> thanks in advance.
> 

Hi,

As a basic end-user of Claws Mail for about a decade, on Linux
I am quite surprise that most of the exchange is off topic
(multi post)

Yes I am super happy with Claws Mail : reliable & fast.

The context : several accounts (at least 7 actives), 
about 20 Gb of mails,  80 k mails in the inbox of the main account, 
hundreds of sub-dirs, and always super fast and stable.

Perfectly fulfills my wishes.

Yes, I noticed very few "bugs" difficult to explain :
 - as reported recently, no icons for few mails with attachment 
(I suspect the message don't conform to the standard)
 - a problem with the scrolling, apparently when I read PDF
with the add-on but not sure


Thanks to all the contributors & devs

best regards

Alain

PS: OK, even better than xfmail (private joke)