<html><head><style> body {height: 100%; color:#000000; font-size:10pt; font-family:Andale Mono;}</style></head><body>----- Original Message ----- From: Darren Duncan <darren@darrenduncan.net> To: discuss@vlug.org Sent: Sat, 04 Jul 2015 19:14:10 -0600 (MDT) Subject: [Discuss] Thunderbird continues on Following up other posts on this subject ... Thunderbird continues to be maintained, both with security/bug fixes and with new features, although the latter come out less frequently and batched up relative to Firefox. I am now using the latest stable-for-awhile Thunderbird, version 31.7.0, having just updated to it today from 31.3.0 which came out in December. A few weeks ago, the subsequent 'stable' version 38.0.1 (there was no 38.0) came out, which adds a bunch of new features, and I will probably update to it in a couple months after it had more time to shake out or had more point releases. I have a large mail archive and tend to make a backup of my local Thunderbird data folder before I upgrade it, just in case. Out of all the 38.x features I see on https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/38.0.1/releasenotes/ probably the one that looks most attractive to me, in fact its a killer app feature, is "Allow file-per-message (maildir) local message storage (bug 845952)". Previously and for a long time, one of the reasons I was doing some work to split kept mail messages over multiple mailboxes was to isolate or reduce the corruption risk, since each mailbox was stored in a single file. This forward-thinking change removes a lot of management need and risk. As a side-effect hopefully that will resolve, or make it easier to resolve, a significant bug I noticed in 31.3.0 versus the previous major version, where mailbox searches turned up messages not containing the search terms or possibly missing messages containing them, which looks like an off-by-one type bug. Compacting mailbox files after moving positive matches out causes the improper messages to not show up either. I didn't see if 31.7.0 has that problem yet. -- Darren Duncan _I went to the Mozilla website to see if I could find any help with my problem. I couldn't; but no sign of abandonment of the old girl yet! I just hope that they do a real job to improve the program, though.<br>Gordon_____________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@vlug.org http://lists.vlug.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss</body></html>