I'm in the process of transitioning from Windows to Ubuntu, and more recently from Ubuntu to Kubuntu. I like Kubuntu's configurability and, ridiculous as it may seem, its color scheme.
I have been using Thunderbird on my Windows system for at least two years, maybe more. There are things about it that irritate me -- e.g., it doesn't have anywhere near the configurability of Eudora, which, as far as I'm concerned, was the perfect email client, and the integration of it's addressbook stinks. I've learned to live with it, but I find the way it performs on Ubuntu/Kubuntu extremely irritaing: it is very slow in responding to commands, and all its windows, e.g., the spell checkter, the window that shows to progress of the send operation, etc., etc., open to the size of the program window itself; my efforts to get these different windows to remember a smaller size are simply ignored.
I've given Evolution and Kontact/Kmail a try, but find Thunderbird, even with the degraded performance compared to the Windows installation, preferable. So, my quesitons:
[1] There was a recent upgrade of Thunderbird from Canonical -- 1.5.0.13 to 1.5.0.14! Why in the world did they bother with the latter? Why didn't they give us 2.0.0.0 +?
[2] Anybody got any idea what's going on with my installation? [My machine is a custom built with a Pentium IV and 512K of RAM, and I've still got Fiesty.]
[3] Is there another email client I might try?
Thanks in advance.
I have been using Thunderbird on my Windows system for at least two years, maybe more. There are things about it that irritate me -- e.g., it doesn't have anywhere near the configurability of Eudora, which, as far as I'm concerned, was the perfect email client, and the integration of it's addressbook stinks. I've learned to live with it, but I find the way it performs on Ubuntu/Kubuntu extremely irritaing: it is very slow in responding to commands, and all its windows, e.g., the spell checkter, the window that shows to progress of the send operation, etc., etc., open to the size of the program window itself; my efforts to get these different windows to remember a smaller size are simply ignored.
I've given Evolution and Kontact/Kmail a try, but find Thunderbird, even with the degraded performance compared to the Windows installation, preferable. So, my quesitons:
[1] There was a recent upgrade of Thunderbird from Canonical -- 1.5.0.13 to 1.5.0.14! Why in the world did they bother with the latter? Why didn't they give us 2.0.0.0 +?
[2] Anybody got any idea what's going on with my installation? [My machine is a custom built with a Pentium IV and 512K of RAM, and I've still got Fiesty.]
[3] Is there another email client I might try?
Thanks in advance.
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