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

[Thibaut Lassalle]

On Jan 9, 2007, at 8:52 AM, James Wilkinson wrote:

> Kim Lux wrote:
>> 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.
>
> One option you might want to look into (although it would mean some
> configuration) is to download your e-mail separately from your mail
> client. If you set up something like fetchmail + postfix (or  
> sendmail if
> you must) + SpamAssassin + procmail, then mail will trickle in to your
> machine periodically and be filtered in the background. When you  
> open up
> a mail client, it's already there and filtered.
>
> You could also add in Dovecot to "publish" the e-mails over IMAP. That
> would mean that Dovecot is responsible for storing your e-mails, not
> your mail client, and means that you can switch mail clients and have
> all your e-mail Just There and working.

or you can use mutt via ssh instead of installing dovecot