Re: Suggestions for mail client

Have you tried snappymail? It's an optimised rainloop fork. I would expect it's even faster than roundcube.

Regards,
dlx

Le 17 septembre 2024 11:45:41 UTC, Waitman Gobble <gobble.wa@gmail.com> a écrit :
>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
>
>-- 
>Waitman Gobble