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Claws Mail client has gotten increasingly buggy over time on Linux.
Now it crashes often. It especially crashes when accessing pop and nntp over a Tor proxy. The way it interfaces with the gnu nntp library causes it to crash a lot. This newsreader has become aggravating to use. It is almost like someone put the bug there on purpose to discourage Tor usage.
I am looking at Sylpheed as a replacement. Does anyone have experience with Sylpheed? What has that experience been like? Do unexpected bugs hide in its woodwork? Has the developer gone AWOL? What is the status of the project?
I can't use Thunderbird. It takes 30 to 45 seconds just to open the program and it freezes up periodically.
Now it crashes often. It especially crashes when accessing pop and nntp
over a Tor proxy. The way it interfaces with the gnu nntp library causes
it to crash a lot. This newsreader has become aggravating to use. It is >almost like someone put the bug there on purpose to discourage Tor usage.
I am looking at Sylpheed as a replacement. Does anyone have experience
with Sylpheed? What has that experience been like? Do unexpected bugs
hide in its woodwork? Has the developer gone AWOL? What is the status of
the project?
I can't use Thunderbird. It takes 30 to 45 seconds just to open the
program and it freezes up periodically.
Claws Mail client has gotten increasingly buggy over time on Linux.
Now it crashes often. It especially crashes when accessing pop and
nntp over a Tor proxy. The way it interfaces with the gnu nntp
library causes it to crash a lot. This newsreader has become
aggravating to use. It is almost like someone put the bug there on
purpose to discourage Tor usage.
On 27.08.2024 um 02:11 Uhr Ini Nagap wrote:
Claws Mail client has gotten increasingly buggy over time on Linux.
Now it crashes often. It especially crashes when accessing pop and
nntp over a Tor proxy. The way it interfaces with the gnu nntp
library causes it to crash a lot. This newsreader has become
aggravating to use. It is almost like someone put the bug there on
purpose to discourage Tor usage.
Please open bug reports for that in the Claws Mail tracker.
IIRC one of the crashes is related to libetpan which is built with the
wrong options:
Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> wrote:
On 27.08.2024 um 02:11 Uhr Ini Nagap wrote:
Claws Mail client has gotten increasingly buggy over time on Linux.
Now it crashes often. It especially crashes when accessing pop and
nntp over a Tor proxy. The way it interfaces with the gnu nntp
library causes it to crash a lot. This newsreader has become
aggravating to use. It is almost like someone put the bug there on
purpose to discourage Tor usage.
Please open bug reports for that in the Claws Mail tracker.
IIRC one of the crashes is related to libetpan which is built with the
wrong options:
Looking through their copious bug reports on this issue, it appears they have been aware of the issue for several years. One more bug report on the same issue is not going to change anything.
The last thing I am going to do is jump through hoops, devote time to setting up debug and logging environment, only to have my efforts ignored, or to be told that they can't replicate the bugs on their end.
Some things just aren't worth the hassle. If they don't want people using Tor, this is their way of saying so.
*Tested with Claws Mail, Thunderbird, Knews, tin, Pan and some others encouraging tor users ... in stark contrast to "cloudflare" ad nauseam:[end quote]
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On Tue, 27 Aug 2024 02:11:11 -0000 (UTC)
Ini Nagap <invalid@nagap.ini> wrote:
Claws Mail client has gotten increasingly buggy over time on Linux.
Now it crashes often. It especially crashes when accessing pop and
nntp over a Tor proxy. The way it interfaces with the gnu nntp
library causes it to crash a lot. This newsreader has become
aggravating to use. It is almost like someone put the bug there on
purpose to discourage Tor usage.
But you're a newbie; you've not posted to usenet before. Why do you
need to hide behind Tor?
I am looking at Sylpheed as a replacement. Does anyone have
experience with Sylpheed? What has that experience been like? Do
unexpected bugs hide in its woodwork? Has the developer gone AWOL?
What is the status of the project?
Works OK, some grumbles: I haven't got a KF working, have to manually
snip sigs, and xposted messages don't seem to get Marked As Read.
No idea after that. I *think* I moved to it for utf support - but I
haven't checked if it does.
I can't use Thunderbird. It takes 30 to 45 seconds just to open the
program and it freezes up periodically.
Standard.
I am looking at Sylpheed as a replacement. Does anyone have
experience with Sylpheed?
What has that experience been like?
Do unexpected bugs hide in its woodwork?
Has the developer gone AWOL?
I can't use Thunderbird. It takes 30 to 45 seconds just to open the
program and it freezes up periodically.
I can't use Thunderbird. It takes 30 to 45 seconds just to open the
program and it freezes up periodically.
Ini Nagap <invalid@nagap.ini> writes:
I can't use Thunderbird. It takes 30 to 45 seconds just to open the
program and it freezes up periodically.
Why don't you go with terminal-based newsreaders? They're the best Linux
have to offer, and they should be very easy to torify.