[geeks] New Mail Client

[Kevin R. Marshall]

For me, it is still unresponsive when checking an IMAP account, but for my setup, that's generally no more than a second or two.  Most other GUI based IMAP clients do the same, but i've never had the opportunity to use Apple Mail.

/KRM

On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:40:48 -0600
Micah R Ledbetter <vlack-lists at vlack.com> wrote:
> 
> Well, while we just "have to say" things... :)
> 
> I've always felt that Sylpheed was completely unusable. It's been a  
> long time since I've used it (several years), so maybe it's change?  
> but whenever it was polling the IMAP server for *anything*, I  
> couldn't do a thing. The windows would go completely unresponsive  
> until the whole server transaction was complete.
> 
> This was the GTK1 version. I'm not even sure it had a GTK2 version  
> when I used it.
> 
> (FTR: I use Apple's Mail. I keep thinking to switch to something else  
> with better IMAP performance for folders with 10K messages and up,  
> but Thunderbird does about what I remember Sylpheed doing, and  
> nothing beats the search in Mail.)
> 
>   - Micah