In the last year or so Thunderbird has decided to use many more processes to do its thing and it seems to use more memory than it used to.   That makes it seem to lock up and /or makes the machine swap on a machine with 2g..

Number of processes it can use is a setting you can change. 

I was not reading the email clients discussion closely.   I use Thunderbird. I don't know if anybody mentioned Claws.   Either it or Evolution would probably be my second choice. 

-------- Original message --------
From: Keith Wright via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org>
Date: 1/30/20 14:49 (GMT-05:00)
To: Worcester Linux Users' Group General Discussion <wlug@lists.wlug.org>
Cc: wlug@lists.wlug.org, steve@ssgreenberg.name, Keith Wright <kwright@keithdiane.us>
Subject: [WLUG] Re: Favorite email client for Linux these days?

Steven Greenberg via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> writes:

> I am using Thinderbird (and have for years).  In the last year or
> so, it tends to lockup my computer while it goes off to do
> something that I cannot detect with a process monitor.
>
> I have tried about everything including looking for a substitute.
> Anybody have any suggestions?

I am not sure what you mean by "process monitor".
If you have some cute GUI thing installed, that
might be part of the problem.

If you mean you can not pull up a shell;
ps ax; and kill it, then either you have
bad hardware, or an OS bug, or you should
learn to do that.

   -- Keith

PS: I told you what I do, but I did not
recommend it.  I have an attitude problem.
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