On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Mail Lists <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> And, by the way, does TB 3b4 work fine with the IMAP protocol? >> > Summary > Imap is fine. > Turn of global indexing. > Choose which folders you want tb to store for itself - it stores them > all by default. > > Details. > > Imap works yes - tho I have heard of some with problems - I have found > there seem to be some nasty quirks/bugs associated with GLODA - I turn > it off on all my computers (Preferences->Advances->Enable Global Search). > > I have found the indexing either messes up or never completes (after > 11 hours on x64 anyway) - it slows things down and I have no interest in > co-mingling my searches across email accounts. - so the design idea is > just silly IMHO. (I am not a fan of smart folders for similar reasons). > > Also, GLODA demands a local (thunderbird stored mbox format ugh) copy > of all mail. You will need to go through carefully and deslect any > folders (one by one sadly) you dont want duplicate copies stored by > thunderbird. > > Since I keep copies of whatever I want on a local imap server for my > local storage (so I am indifferent to mail client) I have zero interest > in yet another copy of all my emails and saved emails stored in a slow, > bad, buggy format which requires me to keep pressing compact every other > day. While my laptop drive is large, another 5 GiB of duplicate copies > is silly as well. > > > I have also switched to using the 32 bit version on my x86_64 installs > - in fact I am now using the nightly build of 3.0pre from mozilla.org. > Tho I am not 100% convinced there are 64 bit problems or not - and the > TB devs dont seem sure if there are or are not either. Thank you very much indeed for your detailed reply! Paul -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
