Good email client to use with Dovecot?

[Tanstaafl]

On 11/18/2016 1:50 PM, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Nov 2016 08:14:02 -0500
> Tanstaafl <tanstaafl at libertytrek.org> wrote:
>> On 11/17/2016 10:58 AM, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:
>>> I have over 620K emails in over 1000 folders. This turns Thunderbird
>>> into an all day affair, just to refresh its caches.  
>>
>> There are lots of knobs you can tweak to improve the situation, but
>> the bottom line is - 1,000 folders (really?!?), 650,000 emails -
>> well... this is going to be a problem for almost any client.

> It wasn't a problem for Kmail, before the disastrous conversion to
> Kmail2. It wasn't a problem with Claws-Mail (I'm leaving Claws for
> non-technical reasons).

Let me clarify - I have no way of knowing if Thunderbird would choke due
to the incredibly large number of folders. The number of emails is much
less the problem.

I have maybe 50 folders, and maybe 200,000 total emails, and don't have
any performance issues, unless (and even then they are minor and
temporary) I'm setting up a new/fresh profile (takes a while for header
downloads), or repairing a folder with a lot of messages.

I'm trying for the life of me to see a use case for anywhere close to
1,000 folders, and am failing. That would be a major problem just from
the human side. How do you find anything?

But, to each their own, you must have a way of dealing with it that
suits you.