>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Barrett <[email protected]> writes:
Daniel> I just want to express my appreciation for VM and Uday and all the Daniel> people who have worked on it. Daniel> Yesterday I had the "privilege" to work with two of the most Daniel> popular email client programs in the world. Using client "A", Daniel> I tried to move 30,000 messages from one IMAP folder to Daniel> another. The process simply fails, silently, without moving Daniel> any messages. Please don't be afraid to shame mail clients, please *name* these clients. But I do have to say that I find mutt faster for reading large mailboxes (ok skimming lkml from time to time) vs using VM. But I do use VM for all my other email. Except $WORK, o365 client sucks, web or dedicated interface. Daniel> I tried the same operation with client B. It executed the Daniel> operation (taking 8+ hours) and told me that all the messages Daniel> moved successfully. However, its count of "unread messages" in Daniel> the first folder won't update (it's still in the thousands, Daniel> with only 21 messages in the folder). Again, please share the details. Daniel> Worse, the IMAP mail server itself shows that only about HALF Daniel> the messages moved -- a random subset with no rhyme or reason. What server? I use dovecot for my personal mail server, I get 3-4,000 emails a day and it's not evening noticing the load. Daniel> Client "A" still tells me NONE of the messages moved, and no amount of Daniel> syncing the folders changes that. Daniel> It's crazy that a mature technology like email can have such poor Daniel> software. Client A is Thunderbird, and client B is MS Outlook. I wish you had said this up top. *grin* Now I look stupid. In any case, while I think VM would probably be ok for this too, I would say that mutt would work even faster. But I'm using Emacs 26.1 with 8.2.0b of VM. It would be nice to get a new release, if only with the latest patches. Daniel> VM JUST WORKS. It maintains my 3600 email folders, storing Daniel> over 670000 messages, with ease, for decades. Thank you, thank Daniel> you, thank you. Yes, a big big thank you to all the people who have supported it over the years.
