[ale] Thunderbird Slowness

[leam hall]

While I won't disagree with Mike's evaluation, Thunderbird is probably not
your issue. I have about 5G between my gmail and other address, and mails
dating from 1999. My TB is pretty responsive, even on a non-new machine. I
can give more details when I get home, but am running on CentOS 6.

Leam



On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Michael Trausch <mbt at naunetcorp.com> wrote:

> Something that has been an increasing annoyance to me, both personally and
> professionally.
>
> We have been seriously considering the idea of a modern mail client that
> is fast, uses modern IMAP extensions, is not Java, and supports secure
> email inherently.
>
> Haven't yet had the time, of course. Would that somebody's buy the time. :)
>
> Anyway. I have yet to find anything that satisfies me and I have been
> looking for about a year or two. Web clients can be nice but I have a
> (perhaps snobby) preference for fast, native yet portable and structured
> code.
>
> Something where both OpenPGP and S/MIME are natively supported. Something
> that allows for a local cache, not a replica of the server side. Something
> where Sieve support is first-class. Something that has a sane and stable
> backend and is capable of having many different front ends. Something that
> is widely portable without reliance on a stacked hot mess of C++, XML,
> JavaScript and all sorts of what I think are utterly over engineered
> components in e.g. the Mozilla "application framework".
>
> Something that is only as complex as is necessary to do safe, secure, and
> practical mail, fast.
>
> Anyway, enough dreaming... Have to get back to work.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Aug 5, 2013, at 5:21 PM, Chris Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I've just about had it with TB 17.0.7 on Ubuntu 12.04.  The problem I'm
> having is that when ever I focus on TB it takes a few seconds for it to
> respond.  Minimize the maximize it takes a few seconds before it responds
> to me clicking on anything.
> >
> > Now I could be at fault here.  I have 3 IMAP accounts and one is Gmail.
>  Each account is huge.
> >
> > One IMAP folder (all files in mbox format) is 1.2G. Another is 2.5G.
>  I'm not sure about Gmail.
> >
> > Is the problem because I have so many emails?  I do expunge and compact.
> >
> > I tried Claws Mail, but it does not render HTML emails.
> >
> > I'm thinking of installing a PHP web mail app.  I'm using an older
> version of OpenWebMail.  Anything much better?
> >
> >
> > Chris
> >
> >
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