Thuderbird as an Evolution replacement ? (Evolution things...)

[Kim Lux <lux diesel-research com>]

I've got large stores of emails on my personal computer from mailing
lists like this one.

I'm finding that Evolution is slow to process incoming mail when
filtering spam and it runs with a high nice priority that seems to hog
the CPU sometimes when I am multi tasking. 

I installed Thunderbird on a friends Windows PC the other day and it
looked pretty spiffy.  How does it compare to Evolution ?  Is it robust
enough to handle really large email archives ?

Thanks. 


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Kim Lux,  Diesel Research Inc.