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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