Talk:SeaMonkey:Reasons

Just back from the semi-annual pilgrimage to find a better IMAP mail client than Mozilla Suite, which was starting to throw increasingly worrisome errors against the progressive OSX updates.

Poorer by a significant sum of Swiss Francs and a great many more hours wasted, I backed out of PowerMail and dropped SeaMonkey into the PowerBook G4. Delighted to find all the significant problems with OSX gone, and a very large number of IMAP folders still synced and kept so in a small fraction of the time PowerMail required to just open them. PowerMail's subset of IMAP4 cannot even DO offline folders, let alone sync them. Nor - settings for such notwithstanding - connect to more than one account automatically when invoked. Nor filter anything but POP-drops, either.

I don't really often get to see how good the SeaMonkey browser is, because I keep it so tightly locked down for 'related' email security that I must use separate browsers (ordinarily two others 'online' and two more on the dock - all with different security settings).

ISTR there was a means of running two independent instances of Mozilla by setting up separate init/configs, so will try that when I get a round tuit.

Code size quite aside, I *do* know that Firefox (used daily) is NOT a match for even very old Mozilla revs, so cannot be a match for SeaMonkey. Likewise Thunderbird is not even close to matching Mozilla Suite / SeaMonkey as a mailer. Too many important settings are either hidden, or not available at all.

Guess I am back to stay, but since I only code C at gunpoint and java not *even* at gunpoint, will have to find some other way to further the project.

For sure it is worth 'furthering'!

Bill Hacker