[Dovecot] OT: Looking for a robust IMAP client

[Timo Sirainen]

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).

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