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

[Ron Frazier]

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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