On Thu, 28 Mar 2013 10:06:18 +0000
John Hall wrote:

In article ,
George Booth writes:
On 27/03/2013 22:10, Joe Egginton wrote:

Followup George not reply. It's caught me out a few times!

Thanks Joe. Reassuring to know I am not alone with this irritating
aspect of an otherwise OK bit of software.


I think that back in the "old days" those were the standard
definitions of "follow-up" and "reply". Turnpike, which is my own
newsreader, uses them the same way. But if you hit Reply instead of
Follow-up, Turnpike does at least give you a warning message and ask
if you're sure.

In Claws Mail, the 'reply' button means 'reply to message' whilst
'sender' is used for replies to - um - sender. In Pan newsreader, the
problem doesn't arise because it doesn't do anything apart from deal
with NNTP.

I gave up on Thunderbird because it occasionally lost a few filed
e-mails after compacting the folders. I noticed a report that a similar
fault occurs with MS. It seems the problem is associated with mbox
storage - which both use - and the solution advocated for MS users is
to only compact folders when offline. I suppose I could have tried
that with TB but I was sure I'd forget to do it now and again and lose
some more mails. Claws stores mails as files rather than in mbox format
so I feel more secure now.

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