Good email client to use with Dovecot?

Ruga ruga at protonmail.com
Tue Nov 22 17:54:57 UTC 2016


Anyone using the default (TB) approach /Archive/YYYY-MM will eventually meet the problem of having too many folders and a slow service. The alternative, for the user, is to write their own filters. From the server side, it would be useful if dovecot would filter certain e-mails automatically. For example, it could move any e-mail from "dovecot at dovecot.org" into /Lists/dovecot at dovecot_org/.


On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 6:34 PM, Tanstaafl <'tanstaafl at libertytrek.org'> wrote:
On 11/22/2016 10:35 AM, @lbutlr <kremels at kreme.com> wrote:
> On Nov 22, 2016, at 7:48 AM, Tanstaafl <tanstaafl at libertytrek.org> wrote:
>> 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?

> I can see it, though I think it’s excessive.
>
> List Mail
> Dovecot
> 2011-06
> 2011-07
> 2011-08

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Like I said, I simply don't see it. There is simply zero reason to split
things up like this. It is trivial to limit your view to just what you
want with filters or just plain sorting (by date in this case).

Just not enough bang for the buck. Again, this is jut my opinion, if
this makes someone else feel better/more organized or whatever,
obviously they are free to have as many folders as they want.


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