The ideal mail client?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sat, 2009-08-08 at 11:41 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> Tim wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 18:32 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> >   
> >> Apropos IMAP issues in Kmail, I just happened to notice this:
> >> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202917.
> >>     
> >
> > That sounds familiar.  I haven't tried Kmail for ages, but I definitely
> > recall one or two IMAP clients stupidly wasting ages checking each
> > folder, when I could have left them alone until I actually went over to
> > that folder.
> >   
> As long as it is configurable it isn't "stupid".  TBird, for example,
> allows you to configure which folders to check for "new mail" and how
> often.  This is great for me since I use server based filtering. 
> Therefore I get notified when new mail arrives in various folders set up
> to receive mailing list messages.  I only use about 20 folders in that
> way...so maybe I'm also being "reasonable".

I do the same with Evo, however the bug report cited above speaks of
three issues with Kmail, only one of which is related to unnecessary
folder checking. More important is that it's is taking way too long to
check each folder, even when it may only have a few new messages in it,
or none. That looks very much like an implementation problem.

poc