I HATE Evolution ! Thunderbird ?

[Stuart Sears]

linuxguy wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 19:21 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
>> On Monday 09 June 2008 19:08:46 linuxguy wrote:
>>> My email setup is 6 different gmail accounts, being sorted into about 25
>>> folders via rules.   The largest folder has about 150,000 messages in
>>> it.  The smallest one has 5,000 messages in it.
>>>
>>> Is anyone using Thunderbird like this ?  How does it compare ?  How hard
>>> is it to move over to it ?
>> I don't recall what choices Tbird gives you, but whatever you do, don't put 
>> that number of messages into mbox folders.  That isn't what you have now, by 
>> any chance, is it?  If so, that's the cause of your problem.
> 
> I've got a folder with 150,000 messages, yes.  Its not usually the one
> that gives the problem though. Almost always the one that gives the
> problem is the one that is open when you first start the application.  I
> think there is a bug in retrieving the current message for viewing and
> receiving a  new email into the folder.
> 
> What is one supposed to do with large email folders, besides manually
> breaking them up ? 

actually make them directories rather than flat files.
mbox  - one big flat text file per folder
maildir - one directory per folder, one file per email.

you may already have this.

Is this your own mailserver or does someone else administer it?

Stuart