<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>It all depends on configuration. Cache is, for example, all-or-nothing in it. For global search, it must be enabled. And if you're using a networked $HOME, this is painful. You wind up having to use gmail's interface or beg the sysadmin for a server-side global search functionality or similar. </div><div><br></div><div>Most of my other complaints aren't that of speed, exactly, but of efficiency. For example, I have long since disabled all my plugins and addons, yet it insists on tying up a whole core to itself. Quite irritating and wasteful so I kill thunderbird when I want the computer to quiet down. (Seriously.)</div><div><br></div><div>I think that more efficient and intelligent clients that make use of all of the modern extensions to IMAP, and used user-configurable caching and such. Oh, crap. I am dreaming again. :)<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Aug 5, 2013, at 6:22 PM, leam hall <<a href="mailto:leamhall@gmail.com">leamhall@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>While I won't disagree with Mike's evaluation, Thunderbird is probably not your issue. I have about 5G between my gmail and other address, and mails dating from 1999. My TB is pretty responsive, even on a non-new machine. I can give more details when I get home, but am running on CentOS 6.<br>
<br></div>Leam<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Michael Trausch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mbt@naunetcorp.com" target="_blank">mbt@naunetcorp.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Something that has been an increasing annoyance to me, both personally and professionally.<br>
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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.<br>
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Haven't yet had the time, of course. Would that somebody's buy the time. :)<br>
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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.<br>
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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".<br>
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Something that is only as complex as is necessary to do safe, secure, and practical mail, fast.<br>
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Anyway, enough dreaming... Have to get back to work.<br>
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On Aug 5, 2013, at 5:21 PM, Chris Fowler <<a href="mailto:cfowler@outpostsentinel.com">cfowler@outpostsentinel.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> 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.<br>
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> Now I could be at fault here. I have 3 IMAP accounts and one is Gmail. Each account is huge.<br>
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> One IMAP folder (all files in mbox format) is 1.2G. Another is 2.5G. I'm not sure about Gmail.<br>
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> Is the problem because I have so many emails? I do expunge and compact.<br>
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> I tried Claws Mail, but it does not render HTML emails.<br>
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> I'm thinking of installing a PHP web mail app. I'm using an older version of OpenWebMail. Anything much better?<br>
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> Chris<br>
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