The notmuch mail client

Posted Nov 18, 2009 9:10 UTC (Wed) by dmk (guest, #50141)
In reply to: The notmuch mail client by aleXXX
Parent article: The notmuch mail client

to adress the 'kmail and thunderbird' comment:

there's a difference between using mail with 0-400 msgs per day and using mail with >400 msgs per day.

the former is the category where the mainstream emailagents are ok. but for larger number of mails there are are performance problems and mail-handling-inefficencies that criple one's ability to handle mail fast. (these inefficiencies are mostly by design and not bugs)

i for one use claws-mail, but am in the <400msgs per day category.

cheers,
dmk

p.s.: and plz! don't mention outlook, because most people here don't even know what it looks like.

The notmuch mail client

Posted Nov 18, 2009 9:12 UTC (Wed) by dmk (guest, #50141) [Link]

hm... make that 0-100msgs probably... because at that point thunderbird starts to hurt already pretty much...

The notmuch mail client

Posted Nov 18, 2009 13:11 UTC (Wed) by halla (subscriber, #14185) [Link]

I'm getting a few thousand mails a day in three accounts -- about half of
them spam, the rest ordinary mail and a lot of mailing list mails. KMail
handles that just fine, including the spam filtering.

But I'm using pop: not sure whether imap would would work as well. My
archives aren't that big though, I throw away a lot of mailing list mail
after having skimmed it, and my archives don't go back to 1993 anymore
after a stupid crash.

And I'm going to try mailody soon, which uses Akonadi and is designed for
handling large amounts of mail over imap.