[vox] Claws Mail vs Thunderbird
Jeff Newmiller
jdnewmil at dcn.davis.CA.us
Sat Jul 20 16:57:52 PDT 2013
FWIW I run Ubuntu 12.04 and Thunderbird and have no such memory problems, but I only keep about a weeks worth of email on my IMAP server so I guess I don't stress the IMAP code as much as you do.
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Rod Roark <rod at sunsetsystems.com> wrote:
>This is just to relate a recent experience... perhaps some others will
>get something from it or have useful information for me.
>
>I recently upgraded my laptop to Ubuntu 12.04 (from 10.10). Not an
>in-place upgrade, but rather installing 12.04 in a new partition and
>copying over configurations and stuff.
>
>Aside from having mixed feelings about Unity, I noticed that
>Thunderbird was now eating gobs of memory. Over the course of a day or
>so it would fill up the laptop's 2 GB RAM and starting getting into
>swap space and slowing everything down.
>
>Also tried Debian 7 and Icedove (Debian's name for Thunderbird) and
>noticed a similar thing, though memory usage seemed to grow at a slower
>rate. Googling the problem turned up inconclusive results, some mix of
>denial, stonewalling and blaming users for having too many messages
>in their folders. I use IMAP exclusively and have accumulated a bit
>South of 40,000 messages among various folders.
>
>So I started looking for alternatives and found Claws Mail, and tried
>it out.
>
>Very nice! It seems to be stable, with a rich set of features and
>available plugins, well designed and very usable. And it's running
>right now in a steady 35 MB according to Ubuntu's System Monitor.
>
>Y'all have a nice weekend. :)
>
>Rod
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