[CS-FSLUG] IMAP email software

[l4c]

Jonathan E. Brickman wrote:
> l4c at thelinuxlink.net wrote:
>> On Sun, 4 Jan 2009, Jonathan E. Brickman wrote:
>>
>>> as the first step.  Yecch.  I also tried alpine again, and remembered 
>>> why IMAP was originally known as a terribly resource-heavy protocol 
>>> originally: alpine, like pine, doesn't cache anything, and 
>>> (shockingly) is slower today on my broadband than pine was in 1994 
>>> over my prized 28.8 with Slackware.
>>
>> Curious..  I switch between Thunderbird and Alpine, but mostly use 
>> Alpine these days because it's FASTER!  I use it for 5 IMAPed email 
>> accounts (screen+alpine is a thing of beauty) some of which generate 
>> several hundred emails per day.  I never see any lag or poor 
>> performance there at all (well, unless my mail server is down for some 
>> reason).  Perhaps it's a version thing?  I am using Ubuntu 8.04 with:
>>
> Are you using an IMAP server on your LAN, or an ISP's IMAP server?  If 
> so, what is your ISP??? :-)
> 
> J.E.B.
> 

Both, actually.  While at work, I get work emails from the LAN there and 
from my home server (on Comcast), and when I am at home, it's exactly 
the opposite.  And then from both places I get imap emails from my 
colo'd mail server (Bluehost.com) and also from gmail (yes, I get a lot 
of email :-)

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