On Sun, 2002-02-24 at 19:55, Bill Moseley wrote: > At 11:25 AM 02/24/02 -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote:
> > Although I read that IMAP can be slow if you have many mailboxes (I have > almost 100), and hundreds of messages a day. > > I have the same problem. The truth is that most mail cleints that claim to be IMAP compliant are simply unusable. syplheed exposes a list of each and every item in the directory where the mail account lives. so on one of my servers, syplheed shows over 500 items and I have to select my active mailboxes from that lot! I find mutt running locally is very good. Its actiually more convenient that it can be run with multiple sessions on the same mail account. So I can have mutt -f Mail/rootmail and mutt -f Mail/debian. Evolution is a heavy application and has some quirks. but it is a very good IMAP client in that it allows shortcuts to your frequently used mailboxes and only asks you to select from mailboxes as opposed to all files.
