Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> 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.
I've read good reports about Claws-mail. Perhaps a subscriber to this list has used it and can comment further.
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.
Dovecot performs indexing of all the maildir folders that it accesses, which should help performance on the IMAP server side. You then need a MUA that doesn't download all of the messages whenever you access a folder. If memory serves, Thunderbird does this in order to support better text searching, but obviously this has performance consequences. Caveat: this is based on memories of prior mailing list discussions.