I think I need a new client… Mailsmith is slowing down for me. What do you use? How much mail do you have?
I have about 40K messages, and doing anything, especially deleting spam and marking messages as non spam in a search results list take forever. And I just looked and it is using 150MB of RAM, that is real memory not VM.
I use Spam Sieve for spam protection, and for the most part it does great. It has a hard time with some virus emails, but is pretty accurate.
Mmmmm, Thunderbird.
Comment by Brian — October 20, 2004 @ 6:27 pm
In spite of being an MS product, Entourage behaves rather well for me. Interesting to hear you say you’re not really liking Mailsmith so much because I keep giving serious consideration to switching–if they’d just add IMAP support.
Comment by Lee Bennett — October 20, 2004 @ 6:59 pm
I’m sort of a “fence sitter” in this one. At home I have my .Mac account, my ISP account, and my MacMerc account coming through Mail.app, while my school account comes through ThunderBird. And on my PowerBook, I have my MacMerc account and school account coming through ThunderBird and I don’t use Mail.app on my PowerBook. I like ThunderBird and Mail.app equally, their SPAM filter techniques are almost identical and very accurate. I’m not sure if either will be good for your large payload. I don’t allow my inboxes to go over 500 messages. Here on my iMac G5, ThunderBird uses 27.5MB of RAM while Mail.app uses 16.5MB.
Comment by James Huff — October 20, 2004 @ 8:45 pm
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Comment by freon — October 21, 2004 @ 3:52 am