Back in March I started look­ing for a new mail user agent, com­monly referred to as email client. Dur­ing the last few days I had a lit­tle time at my hands and I tried Claws Mail, eM Client, Post­box and Sylpheed. Regard­ing Post­box I went for the 30-days trial of the full ver­sion after I’ve com­pared the two edi­tions (Post­box and Post­box Express). I set up a few IMAP and POP3 accounts and then I just used each client for a short time.

Once again, I’ll stay true to Thun­der­bird. To be hon­est, I liked Post­box a lot but it’s not that much supe­rior to Thun­der­bird espe­cially if you con­sider the add-ons sit­u­a­tion. What I liked best about Post­box was the way they orga­nized the accounts. That’s where Post­box really shines. So, instead of wast­ing more time with other clients I just went ahead and did what I wanted to do for a few years – I finally cre­ated a nice User.js to store some help­ful pref­er­ences. I thought I’d share a few of the most impor­tant set­tings that I found with you:

// Thunderbird 3 adds a disk cache. Activate it to cache any remote content.
// Messages and attachments are now cached for IMAP accounts as well.
user_pref("browser.cache.disk.enable", true);
// Grant 50 megabytes of storage
user_pref("browser.cache.disk.capacity", 51200);

Now, let’s move on to the IMAP set­tings. Read more…