On Tuesday, September 2, 2003, at 06:47 pm, Chris Olson wrote: > On Tuesday, September 2, 2003, at 12:34 PM, Tarik wrote: > >> >> On Tuesday, September 2, 2003, at 06:21 pm, Chris Olson wrote: >> >>> I got 14 different mailboxes, one with 2507 messages and 137MB. >>> Three more have over 2000 messages and over 100 MB in each. My sent >>> folder has 2765 messages and 155 MB. Mail works fine for me - never >>> crashes, has never corrupted a mailbox, never even given a hint of >>> any problem >> >> can I ask what hardware you have? > > Yes, this is on my G4/867 Ti. I have 1GB RAM in it which I'm sure > helps when loading large mailboxes, but it works positively great for > me. Ti 400 with 640 RAM here. I have around 5 mailboxes and around one fifth of the messages you have, yet mail does crash and is rather sluggish. Interesting indeed. Perhaps it's my hardware, perhaps my system could use a system rebuild. Tarik