Thuderbird as an Evolution replacement ? (Evolution things...)

Robin Laing Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Tue Jan 9 21:56:21 UTC 2007


James Wilkinson wrote:
> Kim Lux wrote:
>> I'm finding that Evolution is slow to process incoming mail when
>> filtering spam and it runs with a high nice priority that seems to hog
>> the CPU sometimes when I am multi tasking. 
> 
> One option you might want to look into (although it would mean some
> configuration) is to download your e-mail separately from your mail
> client. If you set up something like fetchmail + postfix (or sendmail if
> you must) + SpamAssassin + procmail, then mail will trickle in to your
> machine periodically and be filtered in the background. When you open up
> a mail client, it's already there and filtered.
> 
> You could also add in Dovecot to "publish" the e-mails over IMAP. That
> would mean that Dovecot is responsible for storing your e-mails, not
> your mail client, and means that you can switch mail clients and have
> all your e-mail Just There and working.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> James.
> 

This is the exact problem I have.  Evolution is a really bad program in 
my book.

First, do you have imap access or even pop access to your mail server? 
We don't, we have to use Evolution-Connector.  Talk to your IT staff.

If you do, then just use Thunderbird.  I wish we did.

I use Evolution to get my mail and move it to an export box.  Then I 
save the messages and open them in Thunderbird.  This is about 3 times 
faster than letting Evolution move and sort my mail from the exchange 
server.  This is the first thing that worked since the change in 
December, at least the way I want.  I am still looking at options to 
continue using Thunderbird with our non-imap/non-pop server.

-- 
Robin Laing




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