[Dovecot] OT: best linux imap client for dovecot
Lev Serebryakov
lev at serebryakov.spb.ru
Mon Feb 22 10:04:23 EET 2010
Hello, Axel.
You wrote 18 февраля 2010 г., 18:45:21:
> This is not a my-email-client-is-better-than-your-email-client thread,
> I just want to know which client(s) make proper use of imap features
> for fast searches/copies/deletions etc.
IMHO, all existing clients suck, but not only due to IMAP4 [mis]using, but
because UI is terrible. For example, I don't lnow any client with
proper, accurate text-only quoting (with '> ' marks). Some clients
forget to spilt long lines, some don't add '> ' when I split quote
line by hands, some don't remove '> ' automagically when lines in
quote are merged (by deleting CR/NL on previous line), and things
become even mnore horrible whrn here are many quotes of different
level. I'm not mention clients, which have top-quoting-only setting or
doesn't have templates for editor (no, a signature file IS NOT A
TEMPLATE!)
Threading, working with mailing lists (with all these List-XXX
headers which are standard now), using diffferent "From" names and
e-mails for different folders (and, yes, different templates),
differnet templates for different replies, good filters (Thunderbird's
filters creation UI is bad, IMHO), flexible but esy-to-setup-default
purging rules, etc, etc, etc -- all these features are missing or
implemented horribly wrong in most clients (I don't claim, that every
client has every feature from this list implemented wrong, but most of
clients has 1/2 or more of this list absent or unusable).
There is one client which have not-so-bad-UI (I can not use EMACS
GNU, but I think everything COULD BE DONE in EMACS, so, may be
THERE ARE TWO clients): Ritlab's "The Bat!". But it works with IMAP
terribly wrong, works only on Windows, costs money, and is somwhere
buggy :(
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// Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov <lev at serebryakov.spb.ru>
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