Comments on: Lost Email http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2006/09/21/lost-email/ Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:41:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Chris Syntichakis http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2006/09/21/lost-email/#comment-2826 Chris Syntichakis Fri, 22 Sep 2006 04:34:00 +0000 http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2006/09/21/lost-email/#comment-2826 Hi, I think that OE sucks.. I don’t like the way it handles the storage of the messages.. Outlook is better as you can have ONE PST (personal folders) file for your data (easy to backup it too..). A week ago,I had this experience : a friend had a crash of his HD, we couldnot “move” the pst as it displayed CRC error.. BUT we managed to OPEN it with the Outlook and EXPORT all the items to a new PST.. My main mail app is Apple’s Mail.app (no better than Outlook..) but since so many years I follow this policy : I KEEP important emails as TEXT files … and I copy the important email contacts to my addressbook (sync’ed with my phone and pocketpc and on one extra internal HD and on 2 external HD’s (as encrypted text)) Hi,

I think that OE sucks.. I don’t like the way it handles the storage of the messages..
Outlook is better as you can have ONE PST (personal folders) file for your data (easy to backup it too..).

A week ago,I had this experience : a friend had a crash of his HD, we couldnot “move” the pst as it displayed CRC error.. BUT we managed to OPEN it with the Outlook and EXPORT all the items to a new PST..

My main mail app is Apple’s Mail.app (no better than Outlook..) but since so many years I follow this policy :
I KEEP important emails as TEXT files … and I copy the important email contacts to my addressbook (sync’ed with my phone and pocketpc and on one extra internal HD and on 2 external HD’s (as encrypted text))

]]> By: Ricardo Ramalho http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2006/09/21/lost-email/#comment-2825 Ricardo Ramalho Fri, 22 Sep 2006 03:16:00 +0000 http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2006/09/21/lost-email/#comment-2825 Due to a harddrive crash i lost pretty much all of my e-mail. I learned what backup is all about… the hard-way! So, now i’m using gmail. It’s good, and allways available. And, i must say that Outlook is a very good application, and that i’ve never had much issues with it. As for thunderbird, i just can’t say. Never ever tried it! Due to a harddrive crash i lost pretty much all of my e-mail. I learned what backup is all about… the hard-way! So, now i’m using gmail. It’s good, and allways available.

And, i must say that Outlook is a very good application, and that i’ve never had much issues with it.

As for thunderbird, i just can’t say. Never ever tried it!

]]> By: Eugenia http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2006/09/21/lost-email/#comment-2824 Eugenia Fri, 22 Sep 2006 01:21:00 +0000 http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2006/09/21/lost-email/#comment-2824 OE has worked wonders for me. I love the UI, it’s very stable, it’s extremely fast and consumes not huge amounts of memory. Surely it screwed up during a non-standard action this time (this is an action that performs only once or twice a year), but overall, I use OE since 1998 or 1999 and it’s my favorite application of all. It just does what it’s supposed to do. I had found 2 bugs back in 2001, but these were fixed in subsequent releases, all things considered, this is a very bug-free app (in terms of instability, not in terms of security). OE has worked wonders for me. I love the UI, it’s very stable, it’s extremely fast and consumes not huge amounts of memory. Surely it screwed up during a non-standard action this time (this is an action that performs only once or twice a year), but overall, I use OE since 1998 or 1999 and it’s my favorite application of all. It just does what it’s supposed to do. I had found 2 bugs back in 2001, but these were fixed in subsequent releases, all things considered, this is a very bug-free app (in terms of instability, not in terms of security).

]]> By: Tyr. http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2006/09/21/lost-email/#comment-2823 Tyr. Fri, 22 Sep 2006 01:12:00 +0000 http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2006/09/21/lost-email/#comment-2823 Thunderbird has never ever lost mail for me and I’ve used it since version 0.2. But yeah it’s slow. I think it is a side effect of one of its advantages : it uses standard mbox format which is basically a text file with some keywords. But you’ll never have problems importing mbox data into other email clients, the power of standards. A solution would be to sort the mail over several “mailboxes” reducing the size of the mbox files and load/search time. Although sorting 1.6 Gib of mail sounds like hell <img src='http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=":-)" /> Anyway I prefer Thunderbird to the agro of using Outlook (forced to use at work), which accounts for about 20% of the time I spend yelling at my pc at work. Thunderbird has never ever lost mail for me and I’ve used it since version 0.2. But yeah it’s slow. I think it is a side effect of one of its advantages : it uses standard mbox format which is basically a text file with some keywords. But you’ll never have problems importing mbox data into other email clients, the power of standards.
A solution would be to sort the mail over several “mailboxes” reducing the size of the mbox files and load/search time. Although sorting 1.6 Gib of mail sounds like hell :-)

Anyway I prefer Thunderbird to the agro of using Outlook (forced to use at work), which accounts for about 20% of the time I spend yelling at my pc at work.

]]> By: binarycrusader http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2006/09/21/lost-email/#comment-2822 binarycrusader Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:43:00 +0000 http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2006/09/21/lost-email/#comment-2822 My experience with Thunderbird was the same. These days all my old email is in evolution (quite a bit there), and all my new email is in gmail. I’ll never go back to a mail client again, only gmail seems to be able to handle the torrent of information I have to deal with in email. My experience with Thunderbird was the same. These days all my old email is in evolution (quite a bit there), and all my new email is in gmail. I’ll never go back to a mail client again, only gmail seems to be able to handle the torrent of information I have to deal with in email.

]]> By: Eugenia http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2006/09/21/lost-email/#comment-2821 Eugenia Thu, 21 Sep 2006 08:37:00 +0000 http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2006/09/21/lost-email/#comment-2821 I don’t like Eudora. I don’t know TheBat. I used to use Pegasus back in 1998 at work. OE is very fast for me (extremely fast actually) and very stable. Sure, it f*cked it up this time, but I am 100% sure that the other mail clients would f*ckup way more often than OE would (especially Thunderbird). So I am not changing my email client. The only thing that I MIGHT do is move all my future email from now on to Gmail. I don’t like Eudora. I don’t know TheBat. I used to use Pegasus back in 1998 at work.
OE is very fast for me (extremely fast actually) and very stable. Sure, it f*cked it up this time, but I am 100% sure that the other mail clients would f*ckup way more often than OE would (especially Thunderbird). So I am not changing my email client. The only thing that I MIGHT do is move all my future email from now on to Gmail.

]]> By: Ludovic Hirlimann http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2006/09/21/lost-email/#comment-2820 Ludovic Hirlimann Thu, 21 Sep 2006 08:36:00 +0000 http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2006/09/21/lost-email/#comment-2820 Eugenia have you tried thebat or eudora ? Eugenia have you tried thebat or eudora ?

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