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[Alan Cox]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 05:52:42PM -0700, Jeff Law wrote:
> seen Evolution crash too many times, wiping out reams of email history
> in the process.  Having Evolution hang at startup due to corruption of a
> mailbox a few weeks ago was the last straw.
> 
> I find Thunderbird painfully slow, but at least it's working.

In which case try claws-mail. Claws is actually quite fast performing even
with several folders of 250,000+ mails.

Alan