On Tue, 2013-07-02 at 14:11 +1000, Russell Coker wrote:
I'm idly considering switching away from Kmail. What's a good replacement?
I don't want much in the way of features, just basic sending and receiving mail with offline-IMAP. Viewing HTML mail, signing, encrypting, and decrypting via GPG, and an addressbook that also includes a cache of recent addresses.
Also I'm idly considering moving my archive of 100,000 old messages to an IMAP server on my LAN and have my laptop access it via offline IMAP. I've got a bunch of folders with about 10,000 messages in each. Am I likely to have any problems doing this? The archive isn't going to change often (only when I manually move messages from the current folders on either my laptop or my workstation), so I'd probably have my workstation poll it once a week and my laptop poll it manually.
I've been using Evolution for years and it seems to do a good job. It does support IMAP, HTML and encryption, though I don't use those features. You can download your messages from several POP accounts into the one inbox and you can create filter rules for sorting. I've got 30,000 messages in my inbox and there isn't really any noticeable performance issue.