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

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.

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

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?

> 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/ 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-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.

Maybe, but email clients are basically web browsers these days.

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.

I'm not pointing out what I think it should be, I'm just acknowledging the reality of my inbox.

seamonkey mail seems to work well for me

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.

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