[techtalk] X Mail client recommendations

Dan McGarry dmcgarry at moodindigo.com
Sat Feb 19 01:56:23 EST 2000


----- Original Message -----
From: Britta Koch <bkoch at rz.uni-osnabrueck.de>
To: <techtalk at linuxchix.org>
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2000 7:32 AM
Subject: Re: [techtalk] X Mail client recommendations


> >When you load Empath, it syncs with all your folders in the background.
> >Then when you click on a message, it retrieves it in the background.
> >It does everything that may block in the background. I hate a UI
> >that stalls.
> >
> Tell us whether its stalls when you have 2000+ mails in your Linuxchix
mail folder ;)
>
> Britta (whose mail clients prolly aren't multithreaded)

This brings up a very important (to me) point: I like to keep *all* my
messages, and I'd love to be able to access them programmtically in the
future, in order to process and index them, then write a search interface
for them.

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Dan McGarry
http://www.moodindigo.com/



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