Re: pronto users ???
On February 13, 2003 07:13 pm, Russell wrote:
> Michael D. Schleif wrote:
> > Russell wrote:
> >>Michael D. Schleif wrote:
> >>>Any pronto mua users here?
> >>>
> >>>As you may or may not know, I am working on moving a 2GB,
> >>> ~1000000 message, ~500 folder, ~400 messages per day mail
> >>> archive to debian woody. Currently, this is used by netscrape
> >>> mail in an convenient and elaborate hierarchy of folders
> >>> sometimes (10) or more levels deep.
> >>>
> >>>I'm testing mutt; but, I have not found as convenient a solution
> >>> to the many nested subfolder syndrome, especially regarding the
> >>> navigation of folders from within mutt.
> >>>
> >>>Further investigation shows that pronto supports nested
> >>> subfolders; but, <http://www.muhri.net/pronto/> has not
> >>> revealed much detail.
> >>>
> >>>So, I am soliciting comments from any of you kind people,
> >>> especially regarding pronto's nested subfolder facility _and_
> >>> how pronto compares to mutt -- especially bad comparisons ;<
> >>>
> >>>What do you think?
> >>
> >>I don't know about pronto. What version of netscape? Is it on
> >> windows? Mozilla works just like netscape, but is *much* faster
> >> at handling large mailboxes than netscape 4.7x. Later versions
> >> of netscape are based on mozilla, iirc.
> >
> > Yes, nt4 and netscrape v4.8. No, I've looked at Mozilla, and --
> > nice as it is -- its nested mbox configuration still risks
> > corruption of too much mail and offers nothing to me for remote
> > mail perusal. I like it more than my current netscrape; but, it
> > is not enough of a change to be warranted. Please, review the
> > details in my response to Vineet.
> >
> > What do you think?
>
> I don't know about corruption problems, but maybe mozilla 1.2.1 for
> linux has less risk than the wondoze version. It might be the
> easiest/quickest way to get off the windoze system, then you can
> look for another mailer. I've shared the same mailboxes between
> two PCs with mozilla, but only have one mozilla running at a time.
> So, you could install linux mozilla and point it to the windoze pc
> mailbox for a quick start.
I wouln't advise that. I had the same idea and thought since I was
running mozilla on both windows and linux I could put all my mail on
a fat32 partition and share it between the two OSs.. It worked for
about a week and then the linux version of mozilla corrupted the
files or something because the windows version of mozilla would
always lock up when it tried to open a folder.
Maybe there are minor incompatibilities or maybe it was just bad luck
but I wouldn't risk it.
leo
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