KMail painfully slow... why?

[fedora at howlingfrog.com]

On September 20, 2013 01:46:12 PM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 8:17 PM, <fedora at 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.

-- 
Graham TerMarsch