I had to ditch Mail

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Post #292,008 by ubernostrum 8/31/07 2:18:58 AM Reply	I had to ditch Mail It very quickly gets bogged down if you're regularly receiving a lot of email (in my case, a few thousand messages a day). Thunderbird, on the other hand, deals with it like a champ. --\r\nYou cooin' with my bird?
Post #292,010 by pwhysall 8/31/07 2:41:44 AM Reply	Depends. I get a lot of mail. but I don't receive it directly in Mail, I use an IMAP server. Works fine. Peter [link\|http://www.no2id.net/\|Don't Let The Terrorists Win] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home] Use P2P for legitimate purposes! [link\|http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?pwhysall\|A better terminal emulator] [image\|http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h262/pwhysall/Misc/saveus.png\|0\|Darwinia\|\|]
Post #292,034 by ubernostrum 8/31/07 11:11:21 AM Reply	Yeah, so do I Mail started choking when I had an IMAP folder with about 16000 messages in it; it'd hang for minutes at a time, it'd crash, etc., etc. and finally I couldn't take it anymore and picked up Thunderbird again, which handles the same setup with the same volume, but without the freezing or the crashing. --\r\nYou cooin' with my bird?
Post #292,030 by imqwerky 8/31/07 10:49:34 AM Reply	Ooooh, Mr, Popular! :-) receiving a lot of email (in my case, a few thousand messages a day) Smile, Amy
Post #292,033 by ubernostrum 8/31/07 11:09:59 AM Reply	Yup, automated notifiers love me :) --\r\nYou cooin' with my bird?

I finally crossed to the Dark Side! :) - (a6l6e6x) - (10) - Aug. 28, 2007, 10:15:19 PM EDT

We use Firefox on our Macs without incident. - (Another Scott) - (5) - Aug. 28, 2007, 10:29:19 PM EDT

I had to ditch Mail - (ubernostrum) - (4) - Aug. 31, 2007, 02:18:58 AM EDT

Depends. - (pwhysall) - (1) - Aug. 31, 2007, 02:41:44 AM EDT

Yeah, so do I - (ubernostrum) - Aug. 31, 2007, 11:11:21 AM EDT

Ooooh, Mr, Popular! :-) - (imqwerky) - (1) - Aug. 31, 2007, 10:49:34 AM EDT

Yup, automated notifiers love me :) -NT - (ubernostrum) - Aug. 31, 2007, 11:09:59 AM EDT

Wait -- I thought Winders was the dark side! - (tjsinclair) - (1) - Aug. 29, 2007, 12:27:10 AM EDT

Well, I was thinking hardware platform! - (a6l6e6x) - Aug. 29, 2007, 01:35:38 PM EDT

Bad power jack - - (Ashton) - (1) - Aug. 29, 2007, 06:31:30 PM EDT

Thanks! I suspect you're right on. - (a6l6e6x) - Aug. 30, 2007, 08:17:04 AM EDT

It's mercifully free of Britney Timberlake, Backstreet II Men, and Whitney Dion.
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