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  • Re: Alternatives to outlo

    From Firehawke@VERT/SMLTIME to Matthew Munson on Thu Jun 25 15:30:00 2026
    I've been using Betterbird. It's mostly better than Thunderbird, but it still tends to choke on extremely high volume email accounts, causing the client to freeze for a period of time while it does database cleanup.

    That tends to be a major issue when you have an older email account with 15+ years of email and over 22,000 messages, on any client really.

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    I personally use EM Client in Windows. That is the program I use instead
    of outlook. I hate being forced to use outlook at work. When you are in government, you have to use microsoft slop usually.


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  • From Mortar@VERT/EOTLBBS to Firehawke on Thu Jun 25 13:31:33 2026
    Re: Re: Alternatives to outlo
    By: Firehawke to Matthew Munson on Thu Jun 25 2026 15:30:00

    ...over 22,000 messages...

    Damn! Can't you delete any of that?

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  • From Firehawke@VERT/ANETO to Mortar on Fri Jun 26 22:08:28 2026
    Re: Re: Alternatives to outlo
    By: Mortar to Firehawke on Thu Jun 25 2026 01:31 pm

    I did! It was 22,000 *after* I cleaned out several thousand messages.

    I'm on a high-volume private mailing list; I'd move older stuff to cold storage but there's not a lot of great tools to manage that sort of thing.
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Firehawke on Sat Jun 27 22:01:02 2026
    Re: Re: Alternatives to outlo
    By: Firehawke to Mortar on Fri Jun 26 2026 10:08 pm

    Re: Re: Alternatives to outlo
    By: Mortar to Firehawke on Thu Jun 25 2026 01:31 pm

    I did! It was 22,000 *after* I cleaned out several thousand messages.

    I'm on a high-volume private mailing list; I'd move older stuff to cold storage but there's not a lot of great tools to manage that sort of thing.
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  • From Matthew Munson@VERT/IUTOPIA to FIREHAWKE on Sun Jun 28 08:11:00 2026
    I did! It was 22,000 *after* I cleaned out several thousand messages.

    I'm on a high-volume private mailing list; I'd move older stuff to cold storage but there's not a lot of great tools to manage that sort of thing.
    There is an email archiving software solution.

    It is called Mail Store Home, its a windows program.

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