[Dovecot] OT: Looking for a robust IMAP client

[Udo Rader]

Stewart Dean schrieb:
> This weekend we had a runaway email endless loop.  When it was killed 
> after 18 hours, my inbox had 135,000 messages in it...there were two 
> messages that were being endlessly sent and bounced and I'm on the 
> postmaster alias.  Thunderbird was able to do a mass select of one of 
> the two messages, and deleted 65,000, but after that it locked up.  I 
> ended up firing up Pine to do the final 65,000...whereas TBird had had 
> mulitple imap sessions (and failed), Pine only had one and did the job.
> And even after I had done the mass delete of the other 65,000 and the 
> inbox was down to 2000 messages, TBird was still hiding under the covers 
> and telling me there were still 135,000 messages.  In the end, I had to 
> kill the TBird profile for that account and recreate it.
> 
> Is there a simple robust IMAP client to replace Pine (which I *think* is 
> no longer supported)?  GUI or TTY session?

alpine, the official successor of pine:

http://www.washington.edu/alpine/