Tunning for large number of files in INBOX

[Andreas Hasenack]

On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 03:54:16PM +0200, Marco Colombo wrote:
> > Is there a "real IMAP client" which is free software?
> > I have seen this "downloading *all* headers" behaviour with every free
> > imap client I have tried.
> > 
> 
> Not that I'm suggesting it, but pine doesn't show the "all headers"
> behavior, and it's free. :-)
> 
> Too bad they forgot that an imap folder can hold both messages and
> subfolders, and they had to add a late hack to allow the correct
> browsing of a Cyrus server. No client is perfect.
> 
> Being an old-time user of Pine, it's always a pain to use Thunderbird or
> Evolution, clients so feature-full but w/o decent imap behavior:
> sometimes I have to switch back to Pine to be able to handle 50k+ new
> messages per folder in a decent time (Pine takes negligible time to open
> them).
 
Interesting to know, thanks. I'll consult with my local Pine users :)

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