Mika Tuupola

Because of the future changes I will most likely be traveling more than before. For the first time my trusty Powerbook will be the number one computer. Ssh over crappy GPRS connection sucks to use. Pine over IMAP using the same crappy GPRS sucks even more. I wonder if now is a good time to start using a “modern” mail client?

OS X Mail here we come…

First things first. I realised Mail did not work really well with IMAP accounts having 30k+ emails. Maybe it is the Spotlight indexing, but Mail seemed to hang a lot and had to be kill -HUP:ed a couple of times. Maybe I did not need to save all the backlogs of mailinglist I am subscribing to. If I need backlogs I can always read them at Marc. Command-a delete to all folders and we are good.

Let’s send some email then. What! No linewrapping after 76 characters! How can I send these? Ok, maybe I can trust modern email clients can dynamically adjust the text to the width of the window. It looks stuupid though.