On Sat, 12 Feb 2022 22:31:10 +1030 Tim via users users@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote:
Tom Horsley wrote:
I use fetchmail to download mail from every other mail server onto my home machine, where fetchmail then injects the mail into the dovecot imap server. With dovecot sieve support, I filter the mail into appropriate IMAP folders (or simply discard it). Then I can use any email client to talk to my local IMAP server without having to convert or transfer mail anywhere.
That is true, you could use any mail client that you want to.
Thus far, Evolution is the least-worst one I've found on Linux.<<
You must of never had to use the Evolution mail group before.. They're quite rude over there. Basically, they give you the nice " GO RTFM" for replies, even though you tried Googling your issue.
" Go to HELP > AND XXXX" and read the help guide."
I use to really love Evolution until that started happening.
Mail in IMAP has various advantages that POP3 doesn't have.
You can look at the headers of all available messages, and only fetch the ones your interested in (by name, subject, etc). You can filter based on headers (and that's quicker than taking the whole message in and filtering).
How do you do that? When I tried IMAP, on this sat dish connection, here in Claws, Claws slowly loaded the whole inbox and displayed everything in the inbox.
And every time I switched folders it took it a min to display everything in that folder.
Chris