[ale] Kind words for Windows? - was The latest from Gigabyte

[Michael Trausch]

No big deal. I will fix the bug and send a patch upstream...

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On Feb 8, 2011 3:50 PM, "Ron Frazier" <atllinuxenthinfo at c3energy.com> wrote:
> Michael T.,
>
> I'll address other parts of your message later. Regarding this issue,
> you may wish to try Eudora Open Source Edition. (
> https://wiki.mozilla.org/Eudora_OSE ) I used the Classic edition (in
> Windows) for years and I liked it very much. I'm now using Eudora OSE
> on all my Windows and Linux machines and like it too. The OSE edition
> is based on the Thunderbird codebase. Paul found out that if you
> install it on a system with Thunderbird, it will step on the Thunderbird
> settings. I found out that it uses the .thunderbird directory under
> your home directory to store settings and mail. This is version 1.0 of
> the OSE edition, so I cannot say anything about it's long term
> reliability or development. I've been using it consistently for a
> couple of weeks, and I like it. It has some nice features for
> highlighting and and prioritizing messages. I'm not using it for IMAP,
> as I discovered a few bugs in the IMAP processing as detailed in other
> posts. The old Eudora Classic used to get very unhappy if a message
> folder accumulated over 30,000 messages. I'd then have to move some to
> another folder and it was happy again. I have no idea if this is
> relevant to this edition. I have not observed a memory bug like the one
> you described.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Ron
>
> On 02/08/2011 12:16 PM, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
>> For example, right now. I'm having trouble using my computer. It seems
>> that composing very long emails in Evolution causes it to chew up
>> memory. Thankfully I have some swap; I'm 274 MB deep into it at the
>> moment. Evolution is using 3.7 GB of RAM. I'm going to have to file
>> that bug like as soon as I restart Evo.
>>
>
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>
> Ron Frazier
>
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