Hi,let me start by saying that I'm basically always on high-speed Internet connections and keep my mailboxes relatively small. So I haven't had bad experiences with Thunderbird in that regard. I still don't use it, but that's not the issue here.
-- Daniel Eckl <deckl@xxxxxxxx> is rumored to have mumbled on 26. Juli 2006 21:31:40 +0200 regarding Re: performance issue (imap spool on san):
In a graphical client you want to be able to scroll through your whole message list without any delay. So I think there is no other chance but caching all header information of a folder. On low bandwith situations it seems to be impossible for me to do this on demand only.
Well, you don't know Mulberry then. It has a GUI and is very adaptable to any kind of network situation and it doesn't cache anything! You do have to tweak it, however. It doesn't auto-configure, but there are *many* settings to play around with. Obviously that's both a blessing and a curse.
I was searching for a full featured graphical IMAP client for a long time and tried everything and I have to say: Not only is thunderbird an IMAP client, it is the best graphical IMAP client I could find in the whole Linux and Windows world.
Unfortunately that's not saying much ... it's just too bad that the only decent IMAP GUI client isn't developed further. I have hopes for Thunderbird 2, but I have a feeling that I will continue to use Mulberry for a long time ...
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