Re: Suggestions for mail client

On Tue, 17 Sep 2024, DaLynX wrote:

> 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 ?crit :
> 
> 
> 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

I second roundcube as a great solution. We have userids with a couple of 
dozen account with total messages exceeding 100,000. Roundcube with search 
all folders in a reasonable time as long as we limit the date to a month or 
less.

My mail program of choice is alpine. Nested searching can be done very 
quickly and any phishig or trogin house email can be examined with no risk. 
As with roundcube viewing the original viewing the original source is easy 
to do.

Doug