Mozilla Thunderbird

[CB]

R S Gill wrote:
> Hey Everyone,
> 
> This is just a suggestion.
> 
> How about making Mozilla Thunderbird the default e-mail program in Ubuntu.
> 
> Evolution is very resouce intensive (frequently just sits there 
> "Formating message") and, at least for me, crashes often.  In addition, 
> spam filtering takes a long time.
> 
> Just from an ease of use and performance perspective, why not default to 
> THunderbird instead.
> 
> For those who really want/need it, Evolution is but and apt-get away.
> 
> Gill
> 

Here here. I give Evolution marks for being slick enough to impress the 
manager-types, and it has some nice features (search folders etc). 
However as an IMAP user with a lot of stored mail .. slow isn't the 
word. I would rather telnet in to my IMAP server than use Evolution.