Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/03/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 03:57:17PM -0800, Peter Klein wrote: > LUGgers: I need a bit of advice re. email software that can display > threaded messages. > > I use Windows XP. I've been using Eudora 5.1 for years. I've been > perfectly satisfied with it except that it doesn't do threading. So I've > been getting the LUG digest rather than individual messages. Lately I've > been feeling like I should overcome the inertia for change and switch > email > clients to something that does threading. None of the "real" Eudora versions supported threading, though version 8 will. (This is actually a customized Thunderbird/Penelope rather than a new program.) Its threading function works quite well, though it slows down the program quite a bit. Unfortunately, the current beta 5 version still needs a lot of work and I would suggest staying away from it for now. Something unlikely to be fixed is its miserable file format which is quite a letdown for somebody used to the old Eudora's standard mbox format. Conversion of my version 7.1 messages to version 8 beta 3 seemed to lock up my PC until it finished after 18 hours of grinding... Whichever program you end up trying, let me warn you that you will find that some mailing lists will drive you nuts because people keep breaking threads and grafting new ones to totally unrelated ones by replying to whatever message is handy when they think they are starting fresh... Preeminent among the worst examples of tangled-thread lists is this one. (You have been warned! :-) FWIW, my favorite mail client's motto is: ``All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less.'