Mavericks Mail is BAD

I am so frsutrated with the stupid changes made to Mail in Mavericks I am considering moving back to Snow Leopard Mail.
Can anyone tell me if there would be any issues in doing this ?
Any special process ?
Thanks

My two pennies: Mail takes ages to get new mail. It is immediate on my old G4.
Takes half of memory and slows everything down.
Layout is (my opinion) much worse that anything I've seen.
I have about 20 email accounts and boxes on my old G4 (gmail and my domains)
Managing all easily on G4, works fast.
On PowerBook with Maverick I set only 7 of those , absolutely impossible to work with them. I ran a business that heavily depends on email, have to work on oldG4 if I want to process emails in time.
Maverick email even slows down typing, nothing comes on screen, ball is turning, about 30 sec later or more some letters that I've typed appear, some don't, waiting again.
It looks as if there was a hacker attack on Apple, and Mail was screwed up on purpose, it's impossible to imagine that it was all in the design.
And restoring back to previous system - is Apple laughing at us? Wasting so much time because of bad design. For me it's also wasting money

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Bonjour,
C'est ma première intervention aussi je ne sais pas si je peux m'exprimer en français.
Je tente!
Lors du passage à Maveicks, j'ai basculé sur Thunderbird car je ne souhaitais pas utiliser POP mais Mail ne le permettait pas (du moins je n'ai pas réussi)
Aujourd'hui, je souhaite revenir sur Mail et, pour celà, je dois rapatrier toutes mes données de messagerie depuis Thunderbird.
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I'm hoping that there is a fairly straight-forward way this can be done.
My friend has just purchased a MacBook Air with Mavericks operating system. This is her first Mac and she needs to get all her old business emails onto her new MacBook.
She paid for '1 on 1' Apple support and had a session with an 'expert' yesterday - taking along her old PC laptop in the hope that he could help her. He basically told her she should 'start a new life using Mail'. This is not what she needed to hear.
I'm using Mail version 5.3 on my 5 year old MacBook with OS X 10.7.5. I don't want to give her incorrect advice but my version of Mail allows one to Import mailboxes but not, unfortunately, it would seem emails from Microsoft programs for the PC.
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I'm sure that she's certainly not the first person who has faced this situation but, from the attitude of the (less than helpful) Apple help person I fear that the answer may not be yes.
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Tricia

Patricia Henwood wrote:
Do you know where she should look on her Outlook program to find this out? She hasn't started using Mail yet because she hasn't been able to transfer her emails - so she's still sending/receiving emails from her laptop PC.
No idea, I try not to have anything to do with Outlook except provide a way out of it for the sensible. But aren't you an Outlook user?
Here's the link to the site I found -
http://www.outlooktomail.com/buy-now-for-mac/
That should be fine, it is the same as the one in the Mac app store (which would be the preferred version to use)
My 'help' situation is a little worse than it would first seem - we're in different countries (very grateful for Viber) - her attention span for matters technological is rather short so I'm trying to make everything as painless as possible - and yes, she has backups of her backups so all should be well in that regard.
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Tricia
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Please read this whole message before doing anything.
This procedure is a test, not a solution. Don’t be disappointed when you find that nothing has changed after you complete it.
The purpose of this step is to determine whether the problem is localized to your user account.
Enable guest logins* and log in as Guest. Don't use the Safari-only “Guest User” login created by “Find My Mac.”
While logged in as Guest, you won’t have access to any of your documents or settings. Applications will behave as if you were running them for the first time. Don’t be alarmed by this behavior; it’s normal. If you need any passwords or other personal data in order to complete the test, memorize, print, or write them down before you begin.
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Please take this step regardless of the results of Step 1.
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Note: If FileVault is enabled, or if a firmware password is set, or if the startup volume is a software RAID, you can’t do this. Ask for further instructions.
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