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I used it for years until one day it corrupted its own cache and become thoroughly unusable. Manually repairing tens of megabytes of serialised Lisp isn't fun
by rleigh 3y ago
I used it for years until one day it corrupted its own cache and become thoroughly unusable. Manually repairing tens of megabytes of serialised Lisp isn't fun or practical. If you live in Emacs, it's a great tool though.
Sadly, I had to move on to Thunderbird, and lately Outlook. Sad to say it, but email has become an absolute pain to use and text-based email clients are increasingly unusable. At some level, I feel I'm a sell-out. I no longer self-host my own email server, and I no longer use Gnus or mutt. It does feel like the rest of the world has forced us off these high-quality clients as it has consolidated around a small number of providers who deliberately prevent us doing it ourselves or using our own clients without jumping through major hoops like authentication, and this is a big loss.
- hayabuz 3y agoI have the exact same experience. Migrated from mu to thunderbird due to problems with modern email and lately one of the organizations I work for migrated from imap so that thunderbird also has become unusable.
- gnufx 3y agoIf that means O365/Exchange with IMAP turned off, I don't remember about Thunderbird, but Evolution works, or see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36023845 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36023845
- gnufx 3y agoIf "cache" means .newsrc.eld, 10s of MB seems rather large. I wonder what the corruption was, since it doesn't sound like anything I can remember in ages using Gnus. .newsrc.eld does have backups in the same way as other files. If you're missing XOAUTH2 authentication, there is an Emacs auth-source backend for it.
- rleigh 3y agoYes, it was the newsrc.eld which got corrupted. I can't remember the circumstances, but I think it was an Emacs or Gnus bug at that time. This would be over 10 years ago though.