Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 07/07/05 06:14

Leif K-Brooks wrote:
> 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?

Using Mozilla Mail I have thousands of email...I do move to subfolders
for archive and easier searching but no problems. > 730 MB at present....

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Take care,

Jonathan
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