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
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.