On Fri, 18 Nov 2016 08:14:02 -0500 Tanstaafl tanstaafl@libertytrek.org wrote:
On 11/17/2016 10:58 AM, Steve Litt slitt@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). My experimentation with Alpine indicates that, at the single folder level, it's not a problem for Alpine: Alpine can view a huge folder within a couple seconds the first time, instantly from then on. My (probably temporary) problem with Alpine is finding and committing to muscle memory tactics to replace my Kmail/Claws chops that sped my workflow. I might end up using Alpine for my daily emailing activities, and some other program to act as a sort of "file manager" for my IMAP server.
I think Steffen Kaiser's last email went a long way toward pointing me in the right direction in Alpine operations, especially his link to the IMAP specification. I'll be working with his suggestions over the next couple days.
And of course I still need to investigate Mutt.
Thanks everyone!
SteveT
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