[Dovecot] OT: Looking for a robust IMAP client

[Jose Celestino]

Words by Timo Sirainen [Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 04:40:01PM +0200]:
> On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 14:26 +0000, Jose Celestino wrote:
> > Words by Timo Sirainen [Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 08:17:11AM +0200]:
> > > On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 12:45 -0500, Stewart Dean wrote:
> > > > Is there a simple robust IMAP client to replace Pine (which I *think* is 
> > > > no longer supported)?  GUI or TTY session?
> > > 
> > > Pine and Alpine are about the only clients (besides webmails) that can
> > > open a mailbox without downloading every single message's headers at
> > > startup. So they're probably the only clients where you can quickly open
> > > a huge mailbox and start deleting messages. I wish there were more
> > > clients that worked like that.
> > > 
> > 
> > Mutt also has header caching. Just compile it with
> > 
> >   --enable-hcache         Enable header caching
> 
> But it still downloads all the mails at some point, right? So if there
> are 100k new messages, it downloads their headers. Whereas Pine would
> only download them as necessary (one or two pagefuls at a time).
> 

Absolutely right. It will download them *all* at startup if not in
cache, not page by page.

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