The ideal mail client?

[Timothy Murphy]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

>> Never used IMAP, but believe KMail does it as well as POP mail, at
>> least for sane interpretations of the words "sane way". :-)
> 
> POP and IMAP are two very different animals. AFAIK Kmail was designed as
> a POP client and had IMAP added later. Every so often I take another
> look at Kmail's IMAP support and get the impression it's still not quite
> there, e.g. when reconnecting to a large folder it seemed to spend an
> inordinate amount of time doing something (indexing? synching? cacheing?
> no idea) before I could see any messages. Note that I don't mean the
> first visit to the folder, which would be understandable, but every
> visit.

I use kmail with dovecot/IMAP and it works very well for me.
I don't notice the problem you mention.
How large are your folders?
I see I have 4142 messages in my home inbox.
(I archive it each year.)

I'm currently keeping my email in Ireland,
and accessing it on holiday in Italy,
and that works perfectly.
I had something like 100 new messages today,
and the folder came up almost at once.



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