On 01/21/2011 02:55 PM, Robert Myers wrote:
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Robert
Moskowitz<rgm(a)htt-consult.com> wrote:
> On 01/21/2011 02:08 PM, Jim wrote:
>> Fedora 14 / KDE
>>
>> Today my Thunderbird-3.1.7 crashed and sent all my 1500 emails to the
>> Trash Can. Thunderbird was taking so long to compact and other
>> things it had to do and locking up my desktop and Web Browser.
>>
>> In Fedora is there a better email Browser ?
>>
>> I tried Evolution but it just does not seem to work very good in Fedora 14.
> I run FOUR copies of Thunderbird at one time, each with its own
> directory structure. Each has multiple mail addresses to download.
>
> I start them with command lines like:
>
> export MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1
> thunderbird -profile ~/data/htt/Mail&
> export -n MOZ_NO_REMOTE
Well this is really in a script...
> A typical mail 'system' will have 5Gb of archived mail in
a 100+ nested
> folders. 1000+ emails per mail copy per day is typical. Compacting
> <in> and<junk> goes fast and thank g-d, never a crash from that. My
> system has crashed from running hot during a 3000+ mail download after
> being offline for a weekend and Thunderbird just 'reached' out and
> downloaded the mail, but given I am using POP (I could use IMAP but
> don't) it had to start from the beginning.
>
> If Trash gets above 50K messages I will start consider emptying it. I
> sometimes have to scan all my message folders when trying to remember
> where I stuffed something and if it is a header search still only takes
> a couple minutes. (I have learned to limit body searches to specific
> folders!)
>
> Oh, my mail server is running Courier Mail for POP and IMAP on a Fedora
> 12
Amahi.org server.
>
> I do have SquirrelMail available on my server and have used it at times.
> --
There is probably a bullet-proof way to do just about anything in
Linux. Unfortunately, you often do not discover the correct formula
for body armor until your body is already riddled with bullets.
I have a complicated system, as non-enterprise systems go, and I have
plenty of administrative chores just to keep the various real and
virtual instances up-to-date and well-behaved.
Everyone has to set his or her own priorities. Mine do not include
being smart about email clients.
I use the command-line to be smart about lots of things. I'm glad I
don't have to do it with email.
Robert.
Robert.