Quoting Gene Heskett (2019-05-26 16:25:43) > On Sunday 26 May 2019 07:05:45 am Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > Quoting Paul Sutton (2019-05-26 12:28:43) > > > On my netbook, Thunderbird seems really unstable, it stars up > > > fine then seems to stall and fails to respond, it eventually > > > picks up. [...] > One thing that will "freeze" it is using its own download facilities > to fetch the mail, used to bug me pretty badly, but when it did come > back, everything I had typed into a message came back with it. So I > offloaded that fetching of emails by making fetchmail, procmail, > clamscan and spamassassin all into background tasks that have minimal > effect on kmail. Now my freezes are maybe a second as it sorts an > incoming email that has servived the spam and viri filters. Good point! (this is Thunderbird not KMail but still applies) For IMAP mail, I recommend more modern alternatives to fetchmail: * pullimap * offlineimap (there are more alternatives that I don't recommend) - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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