[nzlug] All email clients suck, no exceptions

[Daniel Lawson]

> One of these days, someone might come up with an email client that
> doesn't totally suck in at least one major area:
>
>  - thunderbird - nice client on the whole, good ui and plugins
>    catalog, product of venerable Mozilla foundation. Downside: when
>    I upgraded my Ubuntu distro and installed a new Tbird version, it
>    failed to recognise my existing Tbird mail store and insisted on
>    me creating new accounts. When I tried importing my email from
>    the old store, it choked
>   

I've run Thunderbird on ubuntu since hoary, and have done every upgrade
since then and not had any issues.

I'm not saying your issue was your fault, I'm just pointing out that "It
broke once for me" doesn't mean the software is completely flawed and
will always have this problem.

I also use IMAP mail, which avoids all the issues of local mail stores.
If you're concerned about your mail, I'd strongly recommend doing the same.