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David Woodhouse
dwmw2 at infradead.org
Sat Feb 23 23:55:53 UTC 2008
On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 12:35 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le mercredi 20 février 2008 à 21:01 -0500, Warren Togami a écrit :
>
> > I find Evolution to be completely unusable for IMAP folders. I have
> > dozens of IMAP folders with tens of thousands of messages on two
> > servers. Thunderbird seems to handle this a LOT faster than evolution
> > and crashes less often.
>
> Thunderbird is stuck in the mbox area. That alone is a showstopper
> depending on your mail archive sizes.
That wouldn't be such an issue if it could just use a local IMAP
"server" by running '/usr/sbin/dovecot --exec-mail imap' and talking to
that. But it isn't capable of that, either. It has to connect to a
listening IMAP dæmon.
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