Re: Weekly SoC report (Thunderbird backend)

[Sean Carlos <sean carlos gmail com>]

If I understand correctly, the Google Desktop has taken the route of 
using an extension to access and index Thunderbird Mail.

F.y.i, their implementation is unusable for many (all?) users: 
Thunderbird ends up hogging up system resources - you need to disable 
Google indexing if you have Thunderbird open.

Relevant threads:

http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Desktop-Linux/search?group=Google-Desktop-Linux&q=thunderbird&qt_g=Search+this+group

Titles include:

* Crazy Memory Usage
* Google Desktop + Thunderbird = Slow
* Thank you / Thunderbird slugishness

Quoting from one:

"Doing anything with Thunderbird, even after it's fully indexed, is
painfully slow.  Opening a message can push the processor to 100%.
Downloading new mail takes a very long time, and then the system chugs
for a couple of minutes after the downloads are done."

This has been my experience as well.