On Sun, Feb 24, 2002, mulix wrote about "Re: mua which handles very large mailboxes":
> imap is also *plain text*. need i say any more?

Ah? What do you mean imap is plain text?

IMAP is just a protocol for remote access to mail messages (IMAP="Internet
Message Access Protocol"). These mail messages might contain pictures/sounds/
video/whatever (i.e., MIME), and you can view them on a graphical client
(e.g., Mozilla which has excellent IMAP support).

> mulix, a mail junky. 

I use mutt too, by the way. It has no problems readying a 1000-mail folder,
but it still takes quite a few seconds (because the folder is a sequencial
file that needs to be read entirely - there's no "index" associated with the
standard Unix mbox format). Replacing pine by mutt is no substitute to
cleaning up your folders (or splitting them up) once in a while :)

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