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Geary has been crashing with some regularity over the past few weeks anyway. Guess I’ll migrate to Thunderbird.

by tylerapplebaum 1y ago

theyknowitsxmas 1y ago
I have that problem. Too bad there is no html client that isn't a massive RAM hog.
- hexagonwin 1y ago
  seamonkey mail seems to work well for me
- esseph 1y ago
  Do you often run out of memory? Want to understand this more. I know I'm talking from a position of privilege, but it's really hard to find a machine these days with less than 16 or 32GB of RAM from the factory. Even going back several years, DDR4 has been extremely cheap for a long time, and DDR5 is finally closer to general ram prices. Are you using mini PCs with soldered ram?
  - yjftsjthsd-h 1y ago
    > Want to understand this more. I know I'm talking from a position of privilege, but it's really hard to find a machine these days with less than 16 or 32GB of RAM from the factory. * Not everyone is using a new machine. * Right now, if I go to https://www.bestbuy.com/ https://www.bestbuy.com/ and scroll down until I hit a laptop, the first 2 have 16GB, and the third is https://www.bestbuy.com/site/hp-victus-15-6-144hz-full-hd-gaming-laptop-intel-core-i5-8gb-memory-nvidia-geforce-rtx-3050-512gb-ssd-mica-silver/6618924.p?skuId=6618924 https://www.bestbuy.com/site/hp-victus-15-6-144hz-full-hd-ga... with 8GB. It's not even cheap. * On my desk right now is a mini PC with 12GB, which I bought earlier this year. * Even if we pretend everyone has 16GB+, it would be nice if we could use that memory for other stuff instead of an email client hogging it.
    - esseph 1y ago
      Maybe, but email clients are basically web browsers these days.
      - yjftsjthsd-h 1y ago
        Okay, but that's worse. Like, there's some argument about whether browsers should display documents vs being an entire operating system with an entire portable execution environment for arbitrary applications... but an email client has no such excuse.
        esseph 1y ago
        I'm not pointing out what I think it should be, I'm just acknowledging the reality of my inbox.
mike-cardwell 1y ago
I noticed that during my testing. Was difficult to keep it running for more than a few seconds at times. Thunderbird is a good choice.
curt15 1y ago
Isn't Geary basically a one-person show? I remember evaluating Geary a couple years ago and it looked like there was only one active developer. I ended up going with Thunderbird + Davmail.

Geary has been crashing with some regularity over the past few weeks anyway. Guess I’ll migrate to Thunderbird.

theyknowitsxmas 1y ago

I have that problem. Too bad there is no html client that isn't a massive RAM hog.

hexagonwin 1y ago
seamonkey mail seems to work well for me
esseph 1y ago
Do you often run out of memory? Want to understand this more. I know I'm talking from a position of privilege, but it's really hard to find a machine these days with less than 16 or 32GB of RAM from the factory. Even going back several years, DDR4 has been extremely cheap for a long time, and DDR5 is finally closer to general ram prices. Are you using mini PCs with soldered ram?
- yjftsjthsd-h 1y ago
  > Want to understand this more. I know I'm talking from a position of privilege, but it's really hard to find a machine these days with less than 16 or 32GB of RAM from the factory. * Not everyone is using a new machine. * Right now, if I go to https://www.bestbuy.com/ https://www.bestbuy.com/ and scroll down until I hit a laptop, the first 2 have 16GB, and the third is https://www.bestbuy.com/site/hp-victus-15-6-144hz-full-hd-gaming-laptop-intel-core-i5-8gb-memory-nvidia-geforce-rtx-3050-512gb-ssd-mica-silver/6618924.p?skuId=6618924 https://www.bestbuy.com/site/hp-victus-15-6-144hz-full-hd-ga... with 8GB. It's not even cheap. * On my desk right now is a mini PC with 12GB, which I bought earlier this year. * Even if we pretend everyone has 16GB+, it would be nice if we could use that memory for other stuff instead of an email client hogging it.
  - esseph 1y ago
    Maybe, but email clients are basically web browsers these days.
    - yjftsjthsd-h 1y ago
      Okay, but that's worse. Like, there's some argument about whether browsers should display documents vs being an entire operating system with an entire portable execution environment for arbitrary applications... but an email client has no such excuse.
      - esseph 1y ago
        I'm not pointing out what I think it should be, I'm just acknowledging the reality of my inbox.

mike-cardwell 1y ago

I noticed that during my testing. Was difficult to keep it running for more than a few seconds at times. Thunderbird is a good choice.

curt15 1y ago

Isn't Geary basically a one-person show? I remember evaluating Geary a couple years ago and it looked like there was only one active developer. I ended up going with Thunderbird + Davmail.