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The Grumpy Editor's guide to graphical mail clients

The Grumpy Editor's guide to graphical mail clients

Posted Jul 10, 2004 22:21 UTC (Sat) by chbm (guest, #12065)
In reply to: The Grumpy Editor's guide to graphical mail clients by jwb
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's guide to graphical mail clients

Evolution uses index caches, that's why it feels so fast until you have a mailbox that's touched by other MUAs.
In your case IMAP feels much faster cause Courier preopens the mailbox. You're just moving the burn to the server.

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