I switched from ThunderBird to Rmail at the beginning of the year (2006-01-04 Software). I worked on the mbox branch for a while, but enberg has dropped off the net (at least he’s rarely seen in the EmacsChannel), and I loose motivation all by myself. Thus, MIME remains largely unresolved: There’s preliminary MIME decoding stuff available, but due to some bug in Emacs itself, it sometimes crashes (!) when viewing encoded mails, such as the ones sent by Gmail users.
Anyway. I’m pretty happy with Thunderbird at work, so I’m considering to switch back. And it turns out that I’ve never used tags (or “labels”, as they are called in Rmail) to actually find old emails. In that case, I can just as well keep things in folders as I used to.
Plus, the GPG integration with Enigmail is absolutely flawless.
In the process of moving my folders around, I ran into a bastard OSX problem: The HFS+ filesystem is case-preserving, so if you create a file called “Sent” then that’s what it will be called, but sometimes it also ignores case, so if you copy a file called “SENT” into the same folder, that will overwrite the file called “Sent”. Guess what happened.
(I don’t think I lost much, since I noticed that my 2005 archive contains my sent mails, and my new SENT file contained all mails starting with the switch, so I assume I only lost the mails I sent on the few first days of the year.)
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