Is there a better Alternative to Thunderbird ?

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 01/21/2011 02:59 PM, Nataraj wrote:
> On 01/21/2011 02:25 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
>> On 21Jan2011 17:08, Jim<binarynut at comcast.net>  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 use mutt for my email. It's text only, but plenty fast and flexible.
>> And WAY better remotely. Happy to go into detail...
> Over time, I've found that alot of software works very well for certain
> configurations, but if you use some features or configure things too far
> from the default, they don't seem to work at all.  It sounds like you
> are using local folders.
>
> I use thunderbird with a dovecot imap server with maybe 50-60 folders
> and several years of messages in the fedora, centos, ubuntu, postfix
> mailing lists and it is amazingly fast.  Instead of compacting all the
> folders at once (file->compact folders), I've found that if you right
> click the folder and compact only the current folder things work much
> better.  I generally only need to manipulate 1 folder at a time.

Yes.  What do you need to compress Archive folders for if all you do is 
add mail to them?  Typically only In and Junk need compression.  Oh, and 
Sent.  When you empty Trash, it gets naturally compressed.

>   I believe thunderbird uses mbox format for local mail files, which is
> not the fastest, i.e. all messages in a folder are stored in one file,
> so it has to go through and rewrite the entire folder.
>
> If you have alot of large folders turning off the mail indexing feature
> will also speed things up alot.  I'm not sure if this affects compact
> folders or not.
>
> I haven't used evolution for several years, but it used to crash on me
> all the time when I last used it.
>
> Nataraj
>