Stop it with putting your e-mail body in ATT attachments. Its annoying and no one can see your message

Wed Jul 10 08:10:23 UTC 2002

Mulberry is definitely worth a look for the setup you describe 
(http://www.cyrusoft.com/). It's the only mailer I've tried that does 
IMAP, including off-line use, really well.

My largest folder right now is 8606 messages and it handles it fine 
(it does have a problem with *huge* text messages though).

--On 09 July 2002 18:05 -0600 Mike Lewinski <mike at rockynet.com> wrote:
>
> "Adam McKenna" <adam-nanog at flounder.net> wrote:
> Apologies in advance for perpetuating this OT flame war.... Anyone
> with MUA replacement suggestions not covered below, please send
> them directly.
>
> I have been searching for the last year to replace OE. Thus far, it
> is the only IMAP client I have found which has these two critical
> qualities:
>
> 1) Does not crash attempting to load headers from an IMAP mailbox
> +500MB in size / +2000 messages. I use server-side filters and
> segregate mail based on date into subfolders by hand, but still
> can't avoid this condition from happening occasionally (i.e. long
> weekend) even with a lot of maintenance (and aggressive use of
> RBLs). And this on a machine with 768MB of memory, it shouldn't be
> a resources issue.... Ironically, the full version of Outlook
> chokes just as bad as every other client I've tried, but OE has
> proven itself a pinnacle of stability (I cannot recall the last
> time it crashed).
>
> 2) Will display the unread count of every IMAP folder without manual
> checking on my behalf. Due to the environment issues mentioned
> above, the most important stuff has to be filtered server-side into
> a sub-mailbox that is not deluged with spam and more mundane
> matters. I don't care as much about the unread count of "Inbox" as
> I do of "Trouble".
>
> In short, I'm using OE because I need a functional IMAP client that
> isn't crashing every time I sneeze. The short list that I have
> tried includes:
>
> - Netscape Messenger, vers. 4.7 - 6.x (both Windows and unix)
> - Mozilla release 1 and prior
> - Mutt, pine and kmail (on both linux and *BSD)
> - Eudora latest release
>
> It is the mail situation which has kept me tied to windows. Perhaps
> I should just change my e-mail address....
>
> Mike
>
> P.S. Far be it from me to defend OE, but since at least Sept 1999-
> the month I switched to IMAP and have archives to date it- I have
> had exactly 0 virus infections. Perhaps it's because I read bugtraq
> and patch religiously, or perhaps it's because I know better than
> to load .bat/com/exe/pif/scr files received via e-mail. However, I
> do not maintain anything in the address book, in the expectation
> that one *will* eventually slip through.
>
>

--
    Rob.