Re: Is there a better Alternative to Thunderbird ?

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On 01/21/2011 02:55 PM, Robert Myers wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Robert Moskowitz<rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  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.
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