What do you use for email?
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.
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.
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.
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