email with less memory hog habits.

[motorcyclemac]

Hey guys....

What is the general feeling about email programs? I am using Outlook. I just had occasion to open the task manager...and noticed that it is a huge memory hog. Is there a better more stream lined program to manage email? The only stumbling point is that I have 3 emails to pull and I run Vista...

Anyone? Anyone...?

Thanks
Mac.

[JABautsch]

Have you tried GMAIL.com?

[andy_b]

i'm using Thunderbird. one thing i really like about it is that when you make a subfolder in the program, it makes an actual subdirectory/folder on your harddrive with the new subfolder name. you can make a backup by just copying the directory, and if you want to view it later you can just copy the directory into the main directory where T-bird is putting your mail files. the folder then shows up in T-bird and you can read it. no need for weird exports and imports of data files like microcrap products.

also, you can install T-bird into a directory you name. then you can make a shortcut on your desktop to fire up the specific version of T-bird in a specific directory. that is what my wife and i do so we keep our email separate instead of switching logins all the time.

andy b.

[kendall]

Firefox has an email program available, Thunderbird I think it is. Never used it, but it's supposed to be pretty good.
Seamonkey web browser also comes with an email client.

I use browser based mail services, yahoo hotmail etc, never bothered setting up the accounts that came with my ISP.

Ken.

[lwalker]

I've used Thunderbird for the last 3 years or so. Works fine for me and it's a free download from mozilla.com

[dp]

I use Thunderbird and also run my own mail servers. If you want light weight and convenience and don't mind who else reads your mail you can use gmail, hotmail, or yahoo. Since these run in a browser there's not much memory hogging going on.

[john hobdeclipe]

Thunderbird

[lazlo]

Dennis: what's your Task Manager say about your Thunderbird footprint?
I just checked Outlook 2007, and it's running 75 MBytes.

I hate Outlook Express (at home) and was about to install Outlook on my home machines, but if Thunderbird uses less memory...

[dp]

Dennis: what's your Task Manager say about your Thunderbird footprint?
I just checked Outlook 2007, and it's running 75 MBytes.

I hate Outlook Express (at home) and was about to install Outlook on my home machines, but if Thunderbird uses less memory...

T-bird in Windows XP is 24 MBytes, 64 MBytes on the Mac. I would expect that mail indexs and index sizes will change the run-size in both Windows and MacOS and I have none in Windows cuz I never use Windows except for Rhino and Streets and Trips.

[cuemaker]

My outlook (Outlook 2007) on Vista 64bit is only using 56.5mb