On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 03:54:16PM +0200, Marco Colombo wrote: > > Is there a "real IMAP client" which is free software? > > I have seen this "downloading *all* headers" behaviour with every free > > imap client I have tried. > > > > Not that I'm suggesting it, but pine doesn't show the "all headers" > behavior, and it's free. :-) > > Too bad they forgot that an imap folder can hold both messages and > subfolders, and they had to add a late hack to allow the correct > browsing of a Cyrus server. No client is perfect. > > Being an old-time user of Pine, it's always a pain to use Thunderbird or > Evolution, clients so feature-full but w/o decent imap behavior: > sometimes I have to switch back to Pine to be able to handle 50k+ new > messages per folder in a decent time (Pine takes negligible time to open > them). Interesting to know, thanks. I'll consult with my local Pine users :)
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