Re: [Rant] The Endless Search for a Mail Client That Doesn't Suck

[John Summerfield]

Brian Nelson wrote:
6. It must have a decent expiry system.
7. It must not be dog slow.  I have big folders and I don't want to wait
  5 minutes to load them.
     

Mutt suffers from 7, but it's not a big deal if you keep the number
of messages in a folder under control. For this I use archivemail, a nice
external program which can handle flagged and unread mail. I move read mail
to the archive after three days which keeps mutt under control.
   

Yeah, I've thought about using archivemail to take care of message
expiry.  I don't care about archiving it--deleting it is fine--and I
assume archivemail can handle this.
I've resisted up to this point because I'm already using fetchmail,
postfix, spamassassin, procmail, courier-imap, offlineimap, mutt/gnus,
and emacs just to receive, read, and compose email.  Yeah, UNIX
philosophy and all that, but you have to draw the line somewhere.
 

Some years ago, when I was on the lkml, I used to feed it into inn, then 
post my replies to the Internet. I first did that on OS/2 using Changi. 
I find news programs cope better with large volumes than email clients 
do. And, of course, news gets expired automatically.

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