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Glad to see Maildir support hasn't fallen off the map: https://developer.thunderbird.net/planning/roadmap#maildir https://developer.thunderbird.net/planning/ro
by miles 4y ago
Glad to see Maildir support hasn't fallen off the map:
https://developer.thunderbird.net/planning/roadmap#maildir https://developer.thunderbird.net/planning/roadmap#maildir
> Maildir is a message storage format that should improve data safety, allow for incremental (delta) backups of messages and allow for antivirus to interact better with messages. Maildir will be vastly improved for 102, but may not be pref'd on by default.
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=845952 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=845952
- encryptluks2 4y agoThey should be focusing their efforts on this instead of Matrix integration IMHO.
- Scramblejams 4y agoMe too! The lack of maildir was one of three reasons I moved to Evolution. Boring backup tools would generate a huge incremental any time I used Thunderbird. The second is that it didn’t deal well with accounts where I might’ve had 50-100k messages in the inbox. Lots of intermittent freezing during interaction. Finally, I used it for a decade but it never seemed to be without memory leaks. I wasn’t using any extensions, it just leaked. Had to restart it every day. Evolution doesn’t have any of these issues. Would love to come back to it, though!
- spopejoy 4y agoTIL Evolution is still a thing. I switched from Evolution to Thunderbird in 2005 and never went back ...