On September 20, 2013 01:46:12 PM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 8:17 PM, fedora@howlingfrog.com wrote:
Oh, I look regularly for an alternative MUA. Ever since the switch to akonadi, I go searching every few months to find a new MUA that'll be able to consume the mail I've got here.
Can anyone recommend a good MUA that'll accept ~6GB of mail, organized across ~3000 nested maildirs?
I would have thought that pretty much any of the major ones can handle that in local files. I use Evolution (mostly on IMAP, but lots of people use it with POP), also TBird, Claws, Mutt, ... Have you had negative experiences with any of these?
Tried Evolution, but it felt like such a step backwards in terms of features that I sucked it up and lived w/o search working. Was about a year ago when I last tried, and Evolution was horrible comparatively. KMail might have had broken search, but Evolution was missing a whole pile of simple/common features I used day-to-day. After a week, a went back to KMail and sucked it up.
TBird, last I tried, couldn't handle maildir and was mbox only. I'd considered converting all my maildirs to mbox, but then I read a number of threads that outlined how TBird was unstable when using large mbox files. Thus, didn't even go there; I know I'd have a few mbox files that'd be pushing 4-500MB a piece.
I think the biggest issue I've seen is the lack of maildir support across MUAs. KMail was one of the first to go there as an MUA, and last I poked around it looked like nobody ever decided to catch-up with that.