On 28/03/2013 11:01, Graham P Davis wrote:
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.


Thanks for the helpful replies. I must admit I'd never given the
Thunderbird 'followup' button a second glance. Following Joe's reply I
did press it and lo and behold the newsgroup address appears. Many years
ago I used Turnpike, didn't realise it was still around. Outlook Express
gave many years of reliable service but once Win7 appeared things were
not so good and I moved over to Thunderbird. I also find that
Virginmedia's spam filters are now so efficient that I have to check the
spam folder on their servers for any mail messages wrongly judged to be
unacceptable. I regularly find OK messages nestling amongst all the
nonsense. Another Usenet puzzle is that there are some regular posters
on here whose messages I never see except on Google. These folks are not
on the small killfile list but something, somewhere is filtering them out.

Still cold here, early morning clear skies gone, just a few patches of
frozen snow left. Maybe time to wash 900 miles worth of salt off the car.

--
George in Epping, west Essex, 350'asl
www.eppingweather.co.uk
www.winter1947.co.uk