Thunderbird is causing my laptop to run hot

[Liam Proven]

On Fri, 19 Nov 2021 at 12:01, Wade Smart <wadesmart at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I let thunderbird run for weeks in the past on low resource computers
> and Ive been considering return to the download-and-delete path as
> webmail has made me lazy. But if this is true on thunderbird...

Honestly, I don't think it is true.

I use Thunderbird for my work email in my current job, and in my
previous job as well. In that role, I used it when I started, then I
had some minor issues which turned out to be due to the email server
and not T-bird's fault at all. In the meantime, I tried out Sylpheed,
Evolution, KMail, Balsa, Geary, GNUstep Mail, and finally Claws, which
I stuck with for a few months. Finally I switched back to T-bird.

It genuinely is _the_ best FOSS email client there is, and right now
it's running in the background on this iMac. I have it running all
day, every day, on my work laptop now with Ubuntu Unity, on the same
laptop previously under openSUSE Leap, on my old work desktop on
openSUSE Tumbleweed, on Gecko Linux, all day every Mon-Frid for 4
years.

Not a glitch or a problem. No memory leaks, no rogue processes,
nothing. It's reliable, it works, it does the job, the UI is pretty
good -- they've removed some of the old crazy enthusiasm for tabs
everywhere now, and it uses the new Servo engine so all the XUL stuff
is gone, which annoyed me on Firefox but is not a problem on T-bird --
it talks to 5 different email accounts for me including MS Office 365,
Novell Groupwise, Gmail personal, Gmail corporate, Hotmail, AOL, Yahoo
and CIX.

It's a great app.

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