Ken Dibble wrote:

> Hi Folks,

>

> <snip>

> We can and do use Thunderbird, but in our environment, in which people

> regularly use several different email accounts, the interface can be

> confusing for some people. Also, it can be pretty slow while doing its

> various internal processing things such as compacting, reindexing, and

> processing junk mail. And it does not handle very large mailboxes well

> at all.

We use thunderbird here and pretty happy with it. I'm still using

version 2.0.0.24 which does everything I want and the interface is much

simpler than later versions. Setup is also a lot easier. The stupid

setup "Wizard" they put on later versions really is a joke. Maybe you

could consider an older version.

I have some archived messages that I just move to a subfolder when I get

to 15-20k records. The mailbox file size is usually under 2gb and we

don't have any problems with them. We have noticed problems when the

mailbox gets to about 4gb or more. We are constantly trying to get

people to file messages from their inbox and sent folders (to

subfolders) and compact them but it is a hard process. People here also

want to keep everything forever, which is fine but they have to be filed

away in subfolders. Some people here have 50Gb of emails! With regular

compacting not had any problems.

> This should be a fun opportunity for people to argue about the "best"

> email client. :)

We had a look round a while ago but didn't see anything better that did

all we wanted.

Peter

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