Freedumb
I don’t really toss and turn over stuff like the geopolitical situation, or the results of the You’re The One That I Want television program. Right now, the thing that’s getting under my skin is the fact that Thunderbird apparently can’t keep itself functional for more than five minutes when doing something demanding.
What’s really amazing is that my server’s local Dovecot IMAP daemon is a more efficient, stable, and fast manager of e-mail than Thunderbird’s local hard drive storage.
I don’t have cataclysmic issues with Thunderbird’s IMAP client capability. From the data integrity perspective, I don’t like that deleting a message actually copies and recreates it in another folder (“Trash”), while only marking the message for deletion in the original folder (in IMAP, marking for deletion doesn’t mean the message doesn’t exist…yes, it’s weird).
Then, you have to mark the thing for deletion out of trash and “expunge” the dang thing (that’s how you get rid of a marked message), or I think Empty Trash consolidates those two operations into one inconvenient one.
But I digress. So, anyway, I’m copying all my local storage over to my new server, so that I can get to my stored e-mail from anywhere inside my LAN, and in the future anywhere over SSL web mail. And, it’s actually faster and more stable than my hard drive.