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Me too! The lack of maildir was one of three reasons I moved to Evolution. Boring backup tools would generate a huge incremental any time I used Thunderbird.

The second is that it didn’t deal well with accounts where I might’ve had 50-100k messages in the inbox. Lots of intermittent freezing during interaction.

Finally, I used it for a decade but it never seemed to be without memory leaks. I wasn’t using any extensions, it just leaked. Had to restart it every day.

Evolution doesn’t have any of these issues. Would love to come back to it, though!



TIL Evolution is still a thing. I switched from Evolution to Thunderbird in 2005 and never went back ...




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