Good email client to use with Dovecot?

[Larry Rosenman]

Really old, but works well with Dovecot, doesn't cache a lot, and probably
would work
real well is:

mulberry
http://www.mulberrymail.com

Yes, it's dated, but still runs :)



On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 9:58 AM, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Nov 2016 14:11:45 +0100
> Jochen Bern <Jochen.Bern at binect.de> wrote:
>
> > On 11/17/2016 08:48 AM, Steve Litt wrote:
> > > When I use an email client, its purpose is as a window into my
> > > Dovecot IMAP, and as a mechanism to reply to and send emails. I
> > > don't do filtering or calendaring on my email client (filtering via
> > > procmail direct to Dovecot).
> > >
> > > What email clients are all of you using to look at your IMAP
> > > email?
> >
> > Plaintext or HTML mails?
>
> I like the ability to see some sort of representation of the links in
> incoming HTML email. I would never send HTML email.
>
> > OpenPGP?
>
> I don't use that today, but probably will in the future.
>
>
> > S/MIME?
>
> Not necessary.
>
> > Do you like to see your
> > e-mails arranged into threads, or just sorted by some property (be
> > that sender, date, or whatever)?
>
> I could live without the ability to thread. It seems to not work right,
> probably because of various senders' misuse. When I want to look at a
> thread, I usually just sort on subject.
>
> > What's your archiving system, many
> > or few folders, flat or hierarchical?
>
> Archiving is achieved in my Dovecot Maildir tree. For fast moving
> folders like INBOX and my local LUG (GoLUG), every year I move this
> year's messages to, for instance, OLDFOLDERS->GoLUG->2015. I have
> somewhere between 75 and 200 folders, and tend to go about 4 levels deep
> in the hierarchy, although most of my most active folders are 1 level
> down from the account itself. For backup, I use rsync to a backup
> server, and back up the whole Dovecot tree.
>
> > Do you work remote,
>
> Sometimes. Through a pinhole in my firewall, via dynamic dns.
>
> > how good's
> > the connection to the IMAP server,
>
> Varies.
>
> > do you need the capability to work
> > on a local cache while the server cannot be reached ("detached IMAP",
> > I've seen it called)?
>
> No. If I can't do email at a particular time, I'll go somewhere else
> where I can.
>
> >
> > I switched from tkRat (a.k.a. ratatosk) to Thunderbird when I had a
> > need to do "detached IMAP" (and tkRat repeatedly trashed my entire
> > INBOX when I tried).
>
> Did the corruption happen when you messed with it to try to work
> offline, or do you mean that usage during failure to connect caused
> corruption? Did it corrupt the IMAP you were trying to connect to, or
> just a cache?
>
> >  tkRat had interesting features (preselected
> > primary archive folder per folder you're reading, "folders" that
> > actually are views of a local database, minimalistic enough to bridge
> > the distance with X11 instead of IMAP), but hasn't seen further
> > development in ages.
> >
> > With Thunderbird,
>
> Here's why I can't use Thunderbird:
>
> [slitt at mydesk Maildir]$ find ~/mail/Maildir | wc -l
> 625262
> [slitt at mydesk Maildir]$ find ~/mail/Maildir -type d | wc -l
> 1241
> [slitt at mydesk Maildir]$
>
> I have over 620K emails in over 1000 folders. This turns Thunderbird
> into an all day affair, just to refresh its caches.
>
> Thanks,
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
> November 2016 featured book: Quit Joblessness: Start Your Own Business
> http://www.troubleshooters.com/startbiz
>



-- 
Larry Rosenman                     http://www.lerctr.org/~ler
Phone: +1 214-642-9640 (c)     E-Mail: larryrtx at gmail.com
US Mail: 17716 Limpia Crk, Round Rock, TX 78664-7281