[ale] Thunderbird Slowness

[Michael Trausch]

Something that has been an increasing annoyance to me, both personally and professionally.

We have been seriously considering the idea of a modern mail client that is fast, uses modern IMAP extensions, is not Java, and supports secure email inherently.

Haven't yet had the time, of course. Would that somebody's buy the time. :)

Anyway. I have yet to find anything that satisfies me and I have been looking for about a year or two. Web clients can be nice but I have a (perhaps snobby) preference for fast, native yet portable and structured code.

Something where both OpenPGP and S/MIME are natively supported. Something that allows for a local cache, not a replica of the server side. Something where Sieve support is first-class. Something that has a sane and stable backend and is capable of having many different front ends. Something that is widely portable without reliance on a stacked hot mess of C++, XML, JavaScript and all sorts of what I think are utterly over engineered components in e.g. the Mozilla "application framework".

Something that is only as complex as is necessary to do safe, secure, and practical mail, fast.

Anyway, enough dreaming... Have to get back to work. 

Sent from my iPhone

On Aug 5, 2013, at 5:21 PM, Chris Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:

> I've just about had it with TB 17.0.7 on Ubuntu 12.04.  The problem I'm having is that when ever I focus on TB it takes a few seconds for it to respond.  Minimize the maximize it takes a few seconds before it responds to me clicking on anything.
> 
> Now I could be at fault here.  I have 3 IMAP accounts and one is Gmail.  Each account is huge.
> 
> One IMAP folder (all files in mbox format) is 1.2G. Another is 2.5G.  I'm not sure about Gmail.
> 
> Is the problem because I have so many emails?  I do expunge and compact.
> 
> I tried Claws Mail, but it does not render HTML emails.
> 
> I'm thinking of installing a PHP web mail app.  I'm using an older version of OpenWebMail.  Anything much better?
> 
> 
> Chris
> 
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