Up to now I have been reading this lists mail with Thunderbird, fetching it via IMAP from my ISP.
Thunderbird does a decent (but not wonderful) job of filtering spam.
Of course it threads topics and I can label individual emails in different colours.
What I do not like about TB is the relative clumsy interface to build filters to weed out topics I am not interested into or "plunking" rude or otherwise irritant people.
A last item I do not like about TB is that using IMAP, my emails are on the server, and in TB when I delete an item it gets into the server's Trash folders and emptying it therefore takes a while.
Does any of you offer some good suggestion on a client which will make my life easier with filtering, killing/ignoring whole threads and any other goodies experience shows you to be important on such an high volume list ?
TIA, Bob
I enjoy using thunderbird for this list, but I read it as a newsgroup:
linux.debian.user
TB won't filter newsgroup spam, but spam is usually identifiable from the headers when you're choosing messages/threads to read.
One keystroke marks a thread read and jumps to the next unread thread header or message. It's very efficient.
The main drawback is correctly threading replies. The newsgroup is one-way, so replying to the list address can munge the threading. Replying to the newsgroup will only be visible to other readers of the newsgroup, not the mailing list itself. Of course this is not a thunderbird problem!
Regards, Ralph
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