Claws Mail vs. Thunderbird – A comparison

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If you have been reading this blog for a while you know I have recently switched over from Thunderbird to Claws Mail. After all the fuss at Mozilla concerning Thunderbird I thought I would look for a replacement, not for immediate use, but for the future in case Thunderbird was shot down from it’s email flight.
Now that I have been using Claws Mail for a while I thought I would write up a comparison between Claws Mail and Thunderbird and maybe this way I can help some people making a decision.

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WordPress 2.3.1 upgrade

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I installed WordPress 2.3.1.

Quoting the WordPress website

2.3.1 fixes over twenty bugs. Some of the notable fixes are:

  • Tagging support for Windows Live Writer
  • Fixes for a login bug that affected those with a Blog Address different than
    their WordPress Address
  • Faster taxonomy database queries, especially tag intersection queries
  • Link importer fixes

Unfortunately, some security issues were found in 2.3. Janek Vind found an XSS problem that can be exploited if your php setup has register_globals enabled. For this reason, upgrading to 2.3.1 is advised.

Whoops

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I don’t know what happened but my post from October 17th about the Getdeb project was missing, it wasn’t even in the database anymore. Luckily google had it in cache so I posted it again. Sorry to the people who got a 404.

Claws-Mail – Part V

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I’ve been using Claws-mail for a couple of days now and I’m loving it more and more.
Some of the features I love:

  • The ability to process a folder based on rules. I set up a processing filter for example, for some of my folders to delete the emails after 60 days, but only if I haven’t set the thread to be watched. No way I could do this in Thunderbird. Sure it’s a bit of a setup in Claws, especially if you have a lot o ffolders but it sure is worth it.
  • Integration with SpamAssassin. It’s wasn’t an easy setup, mostly because of my lack of knowledge of SpamAssassin, but that had nothing to do with Claws-mail, the integration with Claws-mail is outstanding.
  • The speed.
  • The Next button. Read the next unread mail, covers all folders and all mailboxes.

Yes there are things that I miss but I’ll put in some requests for change with the developers and see what they think.

I’ll elaborate on the “problems” I ran into with SpamAssassin.
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New show on ESPN – E:60

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I know it’s crazy but it’s a little after 6am, but I missed the airing last night, and I have just been watching a new show on ESPN called E:60. It’s an investigative sports show and it’s pretty darn good. This show they had documentaries about gambling in college, 14 year olds being bull fighters in Mexico, Chad Johnson and Kurt Schilling. All the segments were very well done and pretty informative.

I highly recommend the show, it airs on Tuesday at 7PM, or in my case Wednesday at 5AM, on ESPN.

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