[OT] Thunderbird 3 vs. 2

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:13:13 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu  
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:

> Thanks, Denis. I'm looking at Opera now and will give it a try.  
> Unfortunately it shares a number of issues with Thunderbird, among which  
> out-of-sync display:
>
> http://erdani.com/opera-out-of-sync.jpg
>
> The message displayed in the message pane is unrelated to the one  
> clicked in the list above. I'm not talking milliseconds here; I'm  
> talking a dozen seconds. The headers were loading, and the out-of-sync  
> period could be arbitrarily long. To me that's a crass error.

Give a little break here, you are loading almost 500,000 headers :)  I use  
opera for newsgroups, and day-to-day use is pretty good.  Yes, the first  
time you set it up, if you ask it to download all headers (which I did  
because I want to be able to search on old articles), then it takes a  
bit.  In other words, when you are downloading a day's or even a week's  
worth of messages, the sync problem is not noticable.

One thing it does do which I think could be better is as it downloads  
messages, it threads them individually.  This probably explains why it  
takes so long to download all the headers.  I suppose it does this so you  
can read messages as others are downloading, but obviously this is not  
possible ;)

I chose opera over thunderbird because, well, I can't remember why, but I  
think it had something to do with being able to download all the  
messages.  Or maybe it threads them better.  One command to memorize is  
the 'g' key, which marks the current message as read and goes to the next  
unread message.

-Steve