Re: Suggestions for mail client

On Mon, 16 Sep 2024 11:45:08 +0200
Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> wrote:

> Hello.
> 
> I've been a progressively unhappier ThunderBird user for almost the
> last 20 years; the upgrade to 115 brough a general slowness (with
> specific big troubles in some areas), but I resisted.
> Unfortunately 128 is truly unusable: moving from one folder to
> another or from one message to another takes seconds (so just
> skimming the messages on FreeBSD mailing lists is now taking tenfolds
> the time it did until a week ago), resizing the message pane takes
> about 5 seconds, marking 50 messages as read takes close to one
> minute, etc...).
> 
> Don't get me wrong, I still like ThunderBird (altough with a lot of 
> criticism), but unless there's a compiler switch (LTO?) or something 
> else that can bring TB back to the speed it had a couple of years
> ago, it's time to move on to something else.
> 
> 
> 
> In the port tree I see Evolution, Geary, KMail, Sylpheed and possibly 
> others I might have missed.
> I read several comparison but came up with no clear winner; of course
> I could try them all, but it would take days of work.
> So I'm asking here for a suggestion...
> 
> 
> What I absolutely need:
> _ close to perfect IMAP support;
> _ IMAP tags/labels;
> _ multiple accounts: I've got more than 50, although I use less than
> 10 daily and I could leave the other 40 in ThunderBird for occasional
> use; _ online only/no local storage (for some accounts) *and* local
> cached messages (for others);
> _ support for big folders (in the GBs size and or 10k messages);
> _ CardDAV support;
> _ good searching;
> _ performance, stability, future support, etc...
> 
> What I'd like:
> _ newsgroups support;
> _ RSS;
> _ CalDAV (these three I could eventually achieve with other programs, 
> still...):
> _ possibly not locking in into some desktop environment (currently I
> use XFCE);
> _ ability to read HTML mail (altough I never write such a thing).
> 
> What I don't care about:
> _ message filters;
> _ antispam (as I manage them both server side);
> _ "modern" interface.
> 
> Any hint?
> 
>   bye & Thanks
> 	av.
> 

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