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. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
