The ideal mail client?

[Fernando Cassia]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Mike Cloaked<mike.cloaked at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Does anybody have knowledge of an mail client has the most ideal
> functionality for Fedora?
>
> I am currently using Thunderbird as its user interface is comfortable for
> me, and it has plugins to handle gpg encryption, can sync to caldav
> calendars (like Yahoo) - but one big downside is that its local storage is
> in mbox format which is really awful for large collections of mail.

Just split email in subfolders. I used to have a five-year collection
of messages in mbox format. I just split "sent mail" into subfolders
based on year.

Sent
-02
-03
-04
-05

That way "sent" and "inbox" only contain the last calendar year, and
each subfolder only contains a given year.
Once year turns over, just highlight the emaisl from Jan1 to Dec31 and
move those to the right subfolder. Then right-click and "compress" the
folder. to eliminate the deleted messages.

Searches work as well, but there's little impact in viewing stuff as
each folder and subfolder only contains one year's worth of email.

FC