Re:Proposal to start a new implementation of Thunderbird bas...
by beagle3 on Friday April 21, 2017 @01:58AM
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delete panacea.dat (google before hand; I'm evil as far as you know). I had the same experience as you, eventually traced it down to a borked panacea file, deleted it, and everything is perfect again.
Based on some chatter here recently, I just recently switched to trying out Claw, it hasn't been too long yet, so I don't know all of the issues yet, but at least it was easy to setup and is really really snappy and uses about 1/3 of the RAM.