Re: [TCLUG:5340] Communicator 4.0 vs. 4.5

[Brady Hegberg <bradyh@bitstream.net>]

I recently switched from 4.07 to 4.51 so I could use the email.  I have had 
4.51 crash 2 or 3 times for no apparent reason in the last month. This 
didn't happen with 4.07.  Not as bad as the problems I've had on the 
windows side though.  (I just got a Creative Voodoo Banshee card and my 
computer now freezes whenever I pull up Slashdot under Navigator - only 
Slashdot, no other page causes a crash.)  All in all 4.51 is pretty nice if 
you've got the RAM to feed it.

>I'm running RH 5.2 at home, with whichever Communicator it comes
>with (4.07, I think).  I've found that it's pretty lousy with
>keeping track of how many mails are in each mail folder.  When I
>grab new mail, it doesn't update the Message Center (or whatever
>it's called).  I have to manually go into each folder for it to
>update the unread messages count.  I have a lot of folders (and a
>lot of mail filters), so it's kind of a pain to go through all of
>them every time I get my mail.
>
>Anyone else have a similar problem?  Or is it a configuration
>bug?  If this is a known bug, has it been fixed in RH's latest
>set of 4.0 RPM's?
>
>Does anyone know of any reliable RPM's for Communicator 4.5.x?
>Or do I still have to grab the "unsupported" tarball?  I would
>just as soon upgrade to 4.5, because the mail filters work better
>there.  How stable is 4.5.x on RH 5.2, anyway?  I'd rather have a
>rock solid, slightly inconvenient mail program, and an unstable
>convenient one.  (c:
>
>Ahhh, pining for a solid Mozilla release...
>
>Thanks,
>John
>
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