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dragansah | 13 years ago

I hope it stands out it's promisses. My Gmail account is not usable on any gnu/linux IMAP client.

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Tobu|13 years ago

It does stay responsive while scanning a large (200k) [Gmail]/All mail folder, but apparently it has a single connection to Gmail because no other folders or messages can be obtained during the download. After about five minutes it has a basic list of headers (but not the subjects) and there seems to be more concurrency. It would be better if it chunked the large scan and allowed other operations to complete (assuming progressive scanning is possible).

jkt_|13 years ago

Interesting, because the only slow action when opening mailboxes is fetching and applying the thread index, and gmail does not support that particular feature. Which means I don't really know how it can take a "few minutes" on GMail -- all it does it simply fetching the UIDs...

thelittlelisper|13 years ago

Mutt / Notmuch + isync (mbsync) / offlineimap works fine...

readme|13 years ago

OK, so I assume by that you also mean GPL software, because mozilla thunderbird is pretty damn good. I use it to manage 4 gmail accounts.

dragansah|13 years ago

Thunderbird is better than evolution. But also gets stuck. Pretty unusable for me.

qb45|13 years ago

Not exactly a part of the GNU (or Linux) project, but Sylpheed works with Gmail over IMAP.

jeltz|13 years ago

What is the difference between Sylpheed and Claws? Claws seems to be a fork from the Sylpheed project.

TsiCClawOfLight|13 years ago

evolution?

jeltz|13 years ago

Last time I checked evolution too had performance problems and was buggy. No idea if that has changed in the last 2 or 3 years.