Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2024 10:42:58 -0400 From: LuMiWa <lumiwa@dismail.de> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Suggestions for mail client Message-ID: <20240916104258.367e66e5@dismail.de> In-Reply-To: <a137a149-1aac-41c4-b288-97be07683df4@netfence.it> References: <a137a149-1aac-41c4-b288-97be07683df4@netfence.it>
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On Mon, 16 Sep 2024 11:45:08 +0200 Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> wrote: > Hello. >=20 > I've been a progressively unhappier ThunderBird user for almost the > last 20 years; the upgrade to 115 brough a general slowness (with > specific big troubles in some areas), but I resisted. > Unfortunately 128 is truly unusable: moving from one folder to > another or from one message to another takes seconds (so just > skimming the messages on FreeBSD mailing lists is now taking tenfolds > the time it did until a week ago), resizing the message pane takes > about 5 seconds, marking 50 messages as read takes close to one > minute, etc...). >=20 > Don't get me wrong, I still like ThunderBird (altough with a lot of=20 > criticism), but unless there's a compiler switch (LTO?) or something=20 > else that can bring TB back to the speed it had a couple of years > ago, it's time to move on to something else. >=20 >=20 >=20 > In the port tree I see Evolution, Geary, KMail, Sylpheed and possibly=20 > others I might have missed. > I read several comparison but came up with no clear winner; of course > I could try them all, but it would take days of work. > So I'm asking here for a suggestion... >=20 >=20 > What I absolutely need: > _ close to perfect IMAP support; > _ IMAP tags/labels; > _ multiple accounts: I've got more than 50, although I use less than > 10 daily and I could leave the other 40 in ThunderBird for occasional > use; _ online only/no local storage (for some accounts) *and* local > cached messages (for others); > _ support for big folders (in the GBs size and or 10k messages); > _ CardDAV support; > _ good searching; > _ performance, stability, future support, etc... >=20 > What I'd like: > _ newsgroups support; > _ RSS; > _ CalDAV (these three I could eventually achieve with other programs,=20 > still...): > _ possibly not locking in into some desktop environment (currently I > use XFCE); > _ ability to read HTML mail (altough I never write such a thing). >=20 > What I don't care about: > _ message filters; > _ antispam (as I manage them both server side); > _ "modern" interface. >=20 > Any hint? >=20 > bye & Thanks > av. >=20 I am using claws mail: https://www.claws-mail.org/faq/index.php/General_Information --=20 =E2=80=9CI hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know noth= ing about.=E2=80=9D =E2=80=95 Jean-Jacques Rousseau=20
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