Posted by: Administrator
on September 16, 2005 11:00 AM
In the nineties, when I used UNIX workstations as my desktop system, I used to use exmh as my primary Email program. It took me a while to get over having to use something else when I left that environment.
At first, I had to use Outlook with Exchange at a client site, and that was pretty much what I was stuck with at various jobs, but I settled on Outlook Express with Windows 98 at home for a while until I finished some graduate school work.
Man, doing without an MH based Email program and grossly inferior resistance to all kinds of macro viruses and other things left me uneasy, but I was able to at least protect my own personal system.
However, once graduate school was over, using Windows at home was over, too. I moved to using desktop Linux software and standardized on Netscape, then Mozilla for my browsing and Email reading. It took a while to get used to it, but it gradually grew on me, and the program, especially the Email part, improved quite a bit.
The mbox format used by Netscape, Mozilla, and most of the other Email clients out there really doesn't scale very well at all, though, when the message count gets really large. The program really slows down when there are thousands of messages.
I used to think that exmh slowed down when it had a lot of messages in any single folder, but mbox based clients are much more affected by the fragmentation and growing size of the mbox as messages are added.
I haven't converted over to Sylpheed, but I have considered doing so. One reason I haven't done so is because Sylpheed just isn't that widely available - you have to often build it yourself if you want it on your system. While I could just keep a copy in my<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/usr/local directory and mount it as a partition on the many systems I test, instead I've gradually moved from the Netscape and Mozilla suites to the individual Firefox browser and Thunderbird Email client. They don't give me my own editing tools, but in the worst case, I can still use my editors and utilize copy and paste features - which I sometimes do.
I may just give Sylpheed some more serious consideration, though.
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I might have to investigate this, too!
Posted by: Administrator on September 16, 2005 11:00 AMAt first, I had to use Outlook with Exchange at a client site, and that was pretty much what I was stuck with at various jobs, but I settled on Outlook Express with Windows 98 at home for a while until I finished some graduate school work.
Man, doing without an MH based Email program and grossly inferior resistance to all kinds of macro viruses and other things left me uneasy, but I was able to at least protect my own personal system.
However, once graduate school was over, using Windows at home was over, too. I moved to using desktop Linux software and standardized on Netscape, then Mozilla for my browsing and Email reading. It took a while to get used to it, but it gradually grew on me, and the program, especially the Email part, improved quite a bit.
The mbox format used by Netscape, Mozilla, and most of the other Email clients out there really doesn't scale very well at all, though, when the message count gets really large. The program really slows down when there are thousands of messages.
I used to think that exmh slowed down when it had a lot of messages in any single folder, but mbox based clients are much more affected by the fragmentation and growing size of the mbox as messages are added.
I haven't converted over to Sylpheed, but I have considered doing so. One reason I haven't done so is because Sylpheed just isn't that widely available - you have to often build it yourself if you want it on your system. While I could just keep a copy in my<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/usr/local directory and mount it as a partition on the many systems I test, instead I've gradually moved from the Netscape and Mozilla suites to the individual Firefox browser and Thunderbird Email client. They don't give me my own editing tools, but in the worst case, I can still use my editors and utilize copy and paste features - which I sometimes do.
I may just give Sylpheed some more serious consideration, though.
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