At 2008-02-04 07:28:06 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > hmmm i guess i've been using it for a while with on-going mboxes so it > hasn't had such problems.
Well, to be honest, I didn't expect it to segfault. I tried KMail, Thunderbird, Evolution, and mutt on the same mailbox. All of them issue the same (kind of) "UID FETCH 1:* ..." command after they select the mailbox, which is inherently brain-damaged (though all three other clients coped, eventually). They should fetch only what they need to render the initially-visible part of the mailbox, rather than making the user wait. What is particularly disappointing is that Pine has existed as a better example of how to do IMAP for well over a decade. But it looks like none of these new clients have learned anything from it (but there are others that do better, e.g. Mulberry and Polymer). > some people tell me that (horrors) outlook is very good for handling > very large mboxes... No. -- ams
