T/S: Thunderbird vs. Mail.app (Mac OS)

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I'm sure there are opinions about this on ILE already, but according to a search by thread title, no threads specifically about it.

Specifically, does Thunderbird manage really, really large mailboxes better than Mail? I accidentally let an archive of work emails get really big (1.1 GB) and it started crashing the app.

― truck-patch pixel farmer (my crop froze in the field) (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 14:07 (twenty years ago)

I accidentally let an archive of work emails get really big (1.1 GB) and it started crashing the app.

What version of Mail are you on? v2.0.3?

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 14:26 (twenty years ago)

Um, er, 1.3.11.

― truck-patch pixel farmer (my crop froze in the field) (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 14:30 (twenty years ago)

OS: 10.3.9

― truck-patch pixel farmer (my crop froze in the field) (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 14:32 (twenty years ago)

bump
No opinions on this?

― truck-patch pixel farmer (my crop froze in the field) (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 17:48 (twenty years ago)

Ah OK. I was curious because I'm on 10.4.4 and have a couple mailboxes that have at least a GB or so of messages in them and all runs relatively well. Mail 2.0.x gets installed with OS 10.4 and the main difference between it and the earlier 1.x (apart from an arguably ill-advised UI change) is that mailboxes are now stored as folders of individual messages instead of the pseudo-bundle combination of mbox and mailbox state.

I didn't get around to checking out Thunderbird until recently (Thunderbird v 1.5 on OS 10.4.x) so things are kind of a dead heat at the moment although searching in Mail 2.x is MUCH faster than it was in 1.x.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 18:03 (twenty years ago)

No opinions on this?

Upgrade to 10.4 if you want to keep using Mail, otherwise give Thunderbird a try.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 18:04 (twenty years ago)

Yea, I've been pretty happy with mail, but email is perhaps my most disorganized part of my electronic life...

― A BOLD QUAHOG (ex machina), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 18:21 (twenty years ago)

I had that problem w/ Thunderbird (BIG e-mail files bringing shit to a crawl; it would take at least 10 minutes to open it up sometimes!) - once I found out you shd compact your inbox regularly (it's a right-click option), things have been swell.

I'm on a PC, tho, so I was going from Outlook to Thunderbird, which is like WHOA.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 18:30 (twenty years ago)

There isn't really one killer email app, yet. For really big mailboxes, Eudora gets lots of props, but I've never used it. If you search the archive more than just browsing it, you could put it all into MailSteward, which uses an SQL database to index it all.

I really need to stop only posting on techie threads.

― stet (stet), Thursday, 26 January 2006 19:16 (twenty years ago)

I really dislike Eudora for some reason. I don't know why... I used Eudora in the past cause you could use different reply addresses for the same account which you can't with Mail.
Now I just use Mail. It's not the best mail program out there, hopefully they'll make a better one soon.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 27 January 2006 08:39 (twenty years ago)

fifteen years pass...

lol I'm still using Thunderbird and I'm having a new IRRATIONALLY ANGRY issue. When I click on Thunderbird's icon in my dock to bring it up, it opens an ad for the newest version (v91) in a new browser window! This is the first time I've ever seen this. Anyone know how to deactivate that? I'm searching but haven't come up with anything yet.

― Profiles in Liquid Courage (WmC), Thursday, 21 October 2021 00:12 (four years ago)

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