Re: I HATE Evolution ! Thunderbird ?

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On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 1:08 PM, linuxguy <linuxguy123@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I've been using Evolution as my email client since RH8.  I hate it
> because it seems to get confused if one opens up an email or changes
> mail folders while it is downloading emails from the server.
>
> When it does this, it goes into a death spiral of "saving folder" and
> "Retrieving message XXXX" and "Fetching mail".
>
> This wouldn't be that annoying except that when it happens it uses
> almost 100% of the processor power and doesn't seem to respond to "nice"
> settings.
>
> Furthermore, the process takes forever to resolve itself.  It may get
> the folder "99%" stored in 5 to 10 minutes, but then it goes for 15
> minutes before the status changes.  And you can't view/edit/send any
> email while this is happening.  It totally ties up my laptop and is
> terrible for battery life when it happens.
>
> Usually I resort to shutting down Evolution with "evolution
> --force-shutdown".  Then I run "evolution --offline" to restart it,
> whereby at least that removes the "Fetching mail" process from messing
> things up.  It also helps not to "Restore settings" so that the email
> its trying to retrieve doesn't mess things up.
>>
> That  leaves just the "storing folder" process to run.   It generates
> tons of errors if you run it from the command line.
>
> FWIW, there is nothing wrong with my hard drive.   I've had this issue
> on 2 different computers.
>
> 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 am using Thunderbird pretty heavily cross platform (although i
prefer the Kontact suite when I am in linux)

Works pretty well, even on a USB drive. No real complaints. Esp. easy
to migrate if you use IMAP, just connect and go.

If you don't already IMAP, I would suggest that you do.

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