Thunderbird

[Bill Piety]

I've been trying to use T-Bird on my 750mhz laptop w/128 megs RAM, along
with Firefox. Oof. Together my screen refresh is excruciatingly slow.
They're both great products but I could use a suggestion on mail
replacement that's much more resource friendly til I can upgrade. I've been
futzing around with various news & mail clients and could use some advice.
Right now I'm trying Pegasus - and it's been years since I've used that
prog. It's fine but has a somewhat quirky interface as far as reading mails
& attachments. Resource usage seems OK. I wasn't crazy about Foxmail, and
tried a couple of others as well. Went thru Xnews and am now trying 40tude,
which also seems OK resource-wise. Ordinarily would go with Free Agent but
that seemed a trifle 'heavy' for my system.

Ideas would be appreciated and fresh thoughts.

 

[LB]

I've been trying to use T-Bird on my 750mhz laptop w/128 megs RAM, along
with Firefox. Oof. Together my screen refresh is excruciatingly slow.
They're both great products but I could use a suggestion on mail
replacement that's much more resource friendly til I can upgrade. I've been
futzing around with various news & mail clients and could use some advice.
Right now I'm trying Pegasus - and it's been years since I've used that
prog. It's fine but has a somewhat quirky interface as far as reading mails
& attachments. Resource usage seems OK. I wasn't crazy about Foxmail, and
tried a couple of others as well. Went thru Xnews and am now trying 40tude,
which also seems OK resource-wise. Ordinarily would go with Free Agent but
that seemed a trifle 'heavy' for my system.

Ideas would be appreciated and fresh thoughts.

Tried netscape 4.8? Its so old it might not need too much memory.

This place probably can point to where to get it. http://www.ufaq.org/

LB

 

[casioculture]

Tried netscape 4.8? Its so old it might not need too much memory.

This place probably can point to where to get it. http://www.ufaq.org/

LB

I may download it just for the sake of nostalgia. I remember a time
when netcenter.com was THE net for most people, by that I mean their
start page. What wonderful days they were back in 1996; no trolls, no
spam, and almost everyone was friendly and fun to talk to. Just by the
fact that you were online back then you simply had to be cool!

 

[Markku V.]

I did not like Thunderbird because of its recourse hunger and slowness.
I find i.scribe very good and light e-mail client. Xnews is great
program to use with newsgroups (reading and posting).

i.Scribe could be found from:
http://www.memecode.com/scribe.php

Markku Virtanen

 

[Slip Kid]

I've been trying to use T-Bird on my 750mhz laptop w/128 megs RAM, along
with Firefox. Oof. Together my screen refresh is excruciatingly slow.
They're both great products but I could use a suggestion on mail
replacement that's much more resource friendly til I can upgrade. I've been
futzing around with various news & mail clients and could use some advice.
Right now I'm trying Pegasus - and it's been years since I've used that
prog. It's fine but has a somewhat quirky interface as far as reading mails
& attachments. Resource usage seems OK. I wasn't crazy about Foxmail, and
tried a couple of others as well. Went thru Xnews and am now trying 40tude,
which also seems OK resource-wise. Ordinarily would go with Free Agent but
that seemed a trifle 'heavy' for my system.

Ideas would be appreciated and fresh thoughts.

I've run T-Bird, F-Fox and the Mozilla Suite on a P-233/96Meg o' ram
(W2k and W98SE)

They even ran on a lapper w/64 meg. Nah, Moz seems to be resource
stingy. Never met an M$ app that didn't suck ram - same w/Ad0be

Ran much better than IE6

For mail? I love 40Tude. I don't know why? I've always had a
complaint about a news client, this sucker is great.

 

[2poor]

I've been trying to use T-Bird on my 750mhz laptop w/128 megs RAM,
along with Firefox. Oof. Together my screen refresh is excruciatingly
slow. They're both great products but I could use a suggestion on mail
replacement that's much more resource friendly til I can upgrade. I've
been futzing around with various news & mail clients and could use
some advice. Right now I'm trying Pegasus - and it's been years since
I've used that prog. It's fine but has a somewhat quirky interface as
far as reading mails & attachments. Resource usage seems OK. I wasn't
crazy about Foxmail, and tried a couple of others as well. Went thru
Xnews and am now trying 40tude, which also seems OK resource-wise.
Ordinarily would go with Free Agent but that seemed a trifle 'heavy'
for my system.

Ideas would be appreciated and fresh thoughts.

I like Calypso.

Used to be shareware, now freeware. Supports multiple accounts. Starts 50
times faster than that bloatware Thunderbird. 5 MB installed on my machine.
Easy to learn and use. Tons of features. Works on XP, I understand.

Dunno why people are farting around with crippled i.Scribe when there is
Calypso.

I keep HTML turned off and open HTML files with my browser (Opera).

"With the ability to turn off display of HTML mail and an encrypted address
book, Calypso is immune to current email "worms" that replicate themselves
by harvesting email addresses from the Windows Address Book and forwarding
themselves to all of your contacts."

Info here:

http://10xshooters.com/calypso-free/

Download and more info here:

http://www.rosecitysoftware.com/calypso/

 

[wald]

Tried netscape 4.8? Its so old it might not need too much
memory.

I hope he doesn't rely on it for a browser, because NS 4.8 is
enormously outdated and ignores a major part of modern web
standards.

For browser, I'd suggest K-Meleon:

http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/

I've got no tips for an email client, since I'm a happy TBird user
myself...

Regards,
Wald

 

[Markku V.]

I have also tried Calypso and I found it very nice but there was some
authentication problem with Calypso and the smtp server I use
(spymac.com). I never succeeded to send an e-mail message. But when I
tried the newer version of Calypso ie Courier (shareware) there was no
problem with smtp at all. I wonder if this was one of those 'minor
issues with Win2K and WinXp'?

Markku Virtanen

 

[Vic Dura]

A blast from the past:
================

What's the word?

Thunderbird!

What's the price?

Thirty twice!

 

[ms]

I've been trying to use T-Bird on my 750mhz laptop w/128 megs RAM, along
with Firefox. Oof. Together my screen refresh is excruciatingly slow.
They're both great products but I could use a suggestion on mail
replacement that's much more resource friendly til I can upgrade.

On a P166 with only 96 MB RAM, I have TB and FF running in W98SE, load and run
quite rapidly, only a little slower than Netscape 4.79 used to, not resource hogs
here. Maybe you have lots of other stuff running that slows things down.

Mike Sa

 

[stxol]

Bill Piety wrote:

/snip/

Ordinarily would go with Free Agent but

that seemed a trifle 'heavy' for my system.

Ideas would be appreciated and fresh thoughts.

Try Free Agent 1.21, an older version. Much lighter than the current -
only a 1.2 Mb download. http://freepctech.com/rode/018.shtml

 

[J44xm]

["Markku V."; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 01:15:16 GMT]

I did not like Thunderbird because of its recourse hunger and slowness.
I find i.scribe very good and light e-mail client. Xnews is great
program to use with newsgroups (reading and posting).

Exactly what he said. ^_^

 

[Bob McConnell]

I've been trying to use T-Bird on my 750mhz laptop w/128 megs RAM, along
with Firefox. Oof. Together my screen refresh is excruciatingly slow.
They're both great products but I could use a suggestion on mail
replacement that's much more resource friendly til I can upgrade. I've been
futzing around with various news & mail clients and could use some advice.
Right now I'm trying Pegasus - and it's been years since I've used that
prog. It's fine but has a somewhat quirky interface as far as reading mails
& attachments. Resource usage seems OK. I wasn't crazy about Foxmail, and
tried a couple of others as well. Went thru Xnews and am now trying 40tude,
which also seems OK resource-wise. Ordinarily would go with Free Agent but
that seemed a trifle 'heavy' for my system.

Ideas would be appreciated and fresh thoughts.

I strongly suggest you get Adaware and run it a few times. The first
time I ran it on my wife's machine it found 54 spyware processes
running of the 386 installed. After several passes to clean all of
that out, her 733 MHz/256MB WinME system ran like new. She couldn't
believe the difference.

She runs Thunderbird and the plain Mozilla browser. Both are quite
frisky.

Bob McConnell
N2SPP

 

[2poor]

I have also tried Calypso and I found it very nice but there was some
authentication problem with Calypso and the smtp server I use
(spymac.com). I never succeeded to send an e-mail message. But when I
tried the newer version of Calypso ie Courier (shareware) there was no
problem with smtp at all. I wonder if this was one of those 'minor
issues with Win2K and WinXp'?

Markku Virtanen

Dunno. If it's an authentication problem, you could check Calypso's
settings and make sure you entered your e-mail info correctly. Maybe check
to see if Courier is set up differently somehow.

Calypso's always been rock solid on my Win98 machine, but I can't say about
XP.

 

[LB]

I hope he doesn't rely on it for a browser, because NS 4.8 is
enormously outdated and ignores a major part of modern web
standards.

For browser, I'd suggest K-Meleon:

http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/

I've got no tips for an email client, since I'm a happy TBird user
myself...

Regards,
Wald

Agreed on browser. I use FireFox and/or IE. Only annoyance is that one
has to copy/paste URLs (but right clicking makes it easier to copy).

LB