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: 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.