Posted by Leif K-Brooks on 07/07/05 03:09

My mother needs a new email client. I've had her using Mozilla Mail for
a while, but it doesn't seem to handle large quantities of email (she
has tens of thousands of messages spread over dozens of folders--not my
fault, she refuses to delete any of it) very well:

- It loads an entire folder of email into memory when it's opened, and
doesn't release the memory when the folder is closed.
- When a compact operation is stopped in the middle (which happens often
for her since compacting takes so long with the amount of email she
has), it creates huge folders with names nstmp-###.
- If compacting isn't done regularly, it spends hours rebuilding summary
files. She can't use her email while it's doing that, either.

Needless to say, I want the new email client to support large quantities
of email better than Mozilla does. Also, it should be
Windows-compatible, and easy enough for her to use it. Linux
compatibility would be nice (I've been trying to convince her to make
the switch for years, and I still hope to some day), but it isn't a
requirement.

Any suggestions?

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