On 1/16/2011 1:10 AM, Jon Elson wrote:
> Well, this is quite off-topic, but I just went through HELL with my
> Thunderbird email client.
> It has been acting flaky for a while, with about 2-minute hangups every
> now and then.  When it does this, the CPU utilization goes to 100% for
> the duration.  Now, suddenly, these delays are 8 minutes long!  This is
> with Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 on a 1.7 GHz pentium 4 just updated to 2 GB of
> memory.
>
> I tried to update to Thunderbird 3.1.1, and the delays with that are 67
> minutes long!
>
> I have a HUGE number of emails stored in many folders going back to
> 1997, and also have newsgroup folders for such as
> rec.crafts.metalworking.  My newsgroup service has everything going back
> to 2003, so there are 600,000 message headers
> for the R.C.M. group alone.  I think Thunderbird is constantly
> "indexing" this stuff for some reason, although I have tried to
> turn off EVERYTHING possible that I don't need.
>
> So, what do others use for email and newsgroups on Linux systems?  I'd
> need something that could import the mail files
> from Thunderbird.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jon
Jon,

I've been using some shape or form of Eudora for the last almost 20 
years.  There's an Open Source Eudora call, logically, Eudora OSE.  This 
reply is being typed from it.  It is based on Penelope.

Mark

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