Have I mentioned that I hate e-mail lately?

[athelind]

Could someone tell my why in the world most email clients dump all your mail into a single inbox, and force you to set up filters and goofy rules to keep from sending replies from a single default address? That's stupid and pointless, and just makes juggling multiple email accounts that much harder.

Pegasus made me do that, and it took me years to get the filters and rules set up to the point where I didn't send replies to mail sent to my Student And Business account from my "Hello, I'm A Dragon And A Furry!" account.

Even after I got that working smoothly, it was impossible to generate rules that would consistently work with mailing lists and blind cc:s.

Thunderbird is the only current mail client I know of that gives you the option to treat each individual account as an individual account, with separate inboxes, draft folders, trash files, and whatever, without any magical jigger-pokery. Unfortunately, Thunderbird showed more evidence of the Mozilla Memory Leak than Firefox did on my Windows machine, and Ubuntu is already glitchy-twitchy. If I can't find anything else than handles email properly, I'll go ahead and use it -- but that still leaves the question of why most clients don't.

If there's some hidden trick to making Evolution (the OpenOffice mail client that's the default for Ubuntu) handle mail nonstupidly, please let me know.

If your answer is "Oh, it's simple, all you have to do is set up a few filters and folders and rules", then you fail at reading comprehension. Please return to grade school for a refresher course.

Comments

[tombfyre.livejournal.com]

I've never used Evolution. :p If I ever set up my Ubuntu extension, I'll be sure to give it a try. For now, I really do enjoy how Thunderbird works. I've yet to see a memory leak though.

[athelind.livejournal.com]

I'm starting to suspect that my machine's idio(syncra)cies lie in the hardware, not the software.

[tombfyre.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that could very well be. I've always noticed that one machine can differ from another greately in how it behaves, even if they're carbon copies of one another. Perhaps they have personalities. :)

[kfops.livejournal.com]

I tend to leave Thunderbird up all the time when I'm working in Linux and haven't really noticed any funny business, but it might be how I'm using it. Of course, my machine is usually only on for 4 - 8 hours a day and the gets shut down, so maybe this occurs over a longer period?

I've never used Evolution, either.

You can use the command "ps aux www" to see if the memory usage in Thunderbird is increasing. Or to clean up the output a bit, "ps aux www | grep thunderbird".

[rikoshi.livejournal.com]

Outlook Express defaults to keeping one's separate email accounts separate, but I realize that's not exactly an option in this case.