[X4U] Mail.app capacities

Stan Gould stan at stangould.com
Thu Apr 19 04:16:33 PDT 2007


Zane:

I used to use Eudora, moved to Apple's Mail.app and did not like it. I 
discovered Thunderbird and have been using it for several years now. It 
is a great mail app. I highly recommend it. 
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/. Great price (free).

Stan

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Zane H. Healy wrote:
> I'm currently running on 10.3.9, though I'm not sure how much of an 
> effect that will have on this.  Just how capable of handling mail is 
> Mail.app?  I use Eudora Pro for my day to day email.  However I have a 
> couple of administrative accounts that I use Mail.app to keep an eye 
> on.  With only 12,596 messages in the one box, and 2727 in the other 
> it is practically paralyzed.  It simply doesn't seem to be able to 
> handle the load.  It takes a minute or more to load the larger box, 
> and it will pop up the spinning beach ball when I click on some of the 
> messages.  This is on a G5 2x2 with 3.5GB RAM, so it's not some puny 
> machine.
>
> Zane
>
>

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