Piers Rowan via luv-main <luv-main@luv.asn.au> writes:
We have moved to GMail from our own servers. For good reasons I have 4 mailboxes that I use. (At least one of which receives 200 messages per hour with a rule in place to move some of the content into folders).
I am using Thunderbird right now and the performance of GMail vs our Dovecot (Linux IMAP server) is sluggish. In addition mail takes longer to arrive and polling seems to cache old message lists.
Given that we cannot move away from GMail is it a client issue? Is there a better client?
I use notmuch myself. Open source, open API, bindings for different languages such as Python, many different clients (I generally use the emacs front end), handles large amounts of emails fast. The downsides are - doesn't integrate very well with imap. Best results when you download all emails to a Maildir. This means accessing email from mobile not great. As a result, need to think carefully about backing up emails. Also using a text base mail client I noticed a number of senders will send emails with different text for text/plain and text/html sections - very confusing - or - more common - send HTML in text/plain parts. -- Brian May <brian@linuxpenguins.xyz> https://linuxpenguins.xyz/brian/