Just to say, I too have some issues with Thunderbird. I backup my working hard disks regularly as I have quite a few HDD now. I wonder if this topic and other 'standard'  applications and their idiosyncrasies could be a topic of a meeting. 

Since my energetic restart into developing apples (have you seen orage) I have had to keep track of versions of apps etc on particular distros.
David, I wonder how best to share tips. Searching the internet might be one way but not necessarily the best.

Thinking about a good way forward ,
Mike

On 03/01/2015 2:09 PM, "David Zuccaro" <david.zuccaro@optusnet.com.au>

wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> Hope you're all keeping cool on this rather oppressive day.
>
> I have an i5-2450M CPU @ 2.50GHz with 4Gb of memory running linux mint 17.
>
> As the title suggests I'm finding Thunderbird to be very sluggish so I would welcome suggestions to help boost performance. (actually evolution was better in this regard)
>
> I have moved about 6 years worth of emails into the archive directory -- I presume exporting these out of Thunderbird into a searchable format (which one?) would help matters.
>
> Alternative mail reader suggestions are welcome. I'm using gmail (imap.googlemail.com) should I look at hosting my own email server? Digital ocean?
>
> On a related note: is there a searchable online archive of luv-main posts?
>
> The only thing I can find is this:
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> http://lists.luv.asn.au/pipermail/luv-main/
>
> which doesn't seem very satisfactory. I was storing about 6 years worth of luv postings but I deleted them in a vain attempt to rectify the above problem.
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