Re: Suggestions for mail client

On Mon, Sep 16, 2024 at 5:45 AM 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.
>
>
I've tried most if not all email clients, nothing is faster in processing
for me than round cube (yes it's web based) I use sieve to autoprocess/file
many emails, especially from lists.
mail/roundcube
mail/dovecot-sieve

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