I've been trying out some other email clients lately as thunderbird always seems to be using alot of memory and gets slower after time if it's been open for a long time. I started using sylpheed-claws at work and although it took a little getting used too it seems to be working quite nicely. It's memory usage looks be alot better too (although I don't know how accurate this test is, thunderbird running for a day, sylpheed-claws running for 2 days):

pmap -d thunderbird pid
mapped: 140680K writeable/private: 108296K shared: 1284K

pmap -d sylpheed-claws-gtk2 pid
mapped: 38156K writeable/private: 16136K shared: 1112K

Also, if you plan on installing sylpheed-claws on debian make sure you get the plugins too as they are most useful.
apt-get install sylpheed-claws-gtk2 sylpheed-claws-gtk2-plugins sylpheed-claws-gtk2-extra-plugins

posted at: 19:19 | path: /debian | permanent link to this entry