On Wed, 2024-12-04 at 11:04 +0000, Bob Marčan via users wrote: > Doesn't Claws Mail satisfy all this criteria? To me, undoubtedly. I did look at it, ages ago. And I do mean a very long time ago (this will be in the pre-Fedora era of Red Hat Linux). I didn't like it at the time, for reasons I've mostly forgotten. It's probably different by now. It's been a while since I went mail app comparing, you can go down a rabbit hole of spending a lot of time trying things out trying to weigh up which 6.5 out of 10 stars mail program you'd prefer to use, instead of just actually doing whatever work you were intending to do. Buying a new PC was similarly hair-pulling exercises. Eventually it becomes a what seems best in my price range decision. I was quite pleased with my last one (sufficiently processing ability powerful, quiet, quite low power consumption). One thing that springs back to mind, looking at a screen shot, was cluttered display. I never liked things with clicky-things here, there, and everywhere. All in the top of the window is where I want them. Apart from the hunting around and visual distractions, it uses up valuable screen screen space. I detest the "looking through a keyhole" view that some interfaces create. Back then I was using a CRT monitor with probably 800 vertical pixels, so wasting screen space was a really big problem. Now I have a bit more resolution, but not masses more. It's 1920 by 1080. And emailing is often a side-by-side thing with a web browser alongside it. Interface design, and how painful it was to write and reply, were my chief go/no-go decision making back then. Maildir became another criteria (with any mail client). Massively huge single mbox files become a serious speed and stability problem. That's been my actual experience, rather than just a theoretical thing. Even though I use dovecot as a local IMAP mail server, mail clients like to locally cache things. Every time you fetched new mail, mbox would be a laborious update before you could do anything. Evolution was awful at that, Thunderbird was even worse. Switching to maildir made a huge improvement. I had to forcekill Thunderbird many times. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
