> FWIW, for various reasons I still use OE (but never O) myself and am 
> in most areas happy enough with the capabilities and results, but as 
> it has problems with active mail stores over about 4 GB (or maybe it's 
> the 130,000 odd messages)  [ :-) ] that too may change.
>   
I know i had to archive my piclist in it as it couldn't handle more than
65535 emails in one folder.
I run my own imap mail server now (dbmail) using thunderbird (and
slypheed claws on the P1 266 laptop with 64mb of ram running damn small
linux. Which is *damn* fast btw, on par with my dual core P4 desktop)
and I haven't looked back. I made the transition to linux desktop about
8 months ago and the only thing I use windows for is games, CAD and
programming PIC's. If solidworks or rhino decide that they would rather
not need to double their system requirements to run on vista I'm set ;->.

I installed vista on my fathers PC recently mainly to get some
experience with it and he hasn't noticed anything "notable" about the
change (going from windows 2000) it does boot faster and the programs
start quicker but thats about it. The only thing i noticed is browsing
file shares on WAN links is now about as fast and stable as my ubuntu
machine. It used to take about 20 seconds to get the content of a folder
over the link now its about 2. Ubuntu does it in about 3.

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