The ideal mail client?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sat, 2009-08-08 at 14:18 +0930, Tim wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 23:32 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Nods...
> 
> If one client takes mere seconds to do whatever it has to do, when you
> go into a folder with thousands of messages, other clients ought to be
> on a par with that.  But some clients seem to spend an inordinate amount
> of time doing something that other clients don't need to do.  I've used
> some that seem to like continuously re-indexing a mail box.  Why?  Is
> the program that crap at keeping up to date, and not crashing, that it
> keeps needing to reinitialise its database?

It's a mystery :-) Sometimes the client only implements a subset of IMAP
functionality, e.g. it doesn't understand the IDLE mechanism and so has
to keep reconnecting to the server. However I'm sure there's more to it
than that in the present case.

poc