Which EMail reader for BIG volumes of mail?

[Alan Dayley]

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
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> Evolution looks/feels like Outlook which may provide comfort. I have
> used it for many years and I'm comfortable with it and I am on a lot of
> mail lists and often get 1000+ e-mails a day.
>
> I find that less important than the actual e-mail program used is how
> e-mail is stored because if you have a LOT of e-mail, local stores of
> POP3 account e-mail in mbox can really drag down the performance and
> make it hard to move from program to program.
>
> I know some will think this is overkill but I think that the only way to
> go is to run your own IMAP server, use fetchmail or getmail to retrieve
> e-mail from various accounts if you have to and use dovecot or
> cyrus-imapd to provide IMAP to mail clients. This way, you can use
> whatever mail program you want or try them all and from various
> computers and your mail is already marked read/replied to/deleted etc.
>
> Once a serious e-mail user catches on to the value of having your own
> IMAP server, they will never give it up.

I completely agree with Craig.  It's silly to expect any email client
to handle 2GB of email a day.  If they are getting that, they need an
infrastructure to handle it.  Get an IMAP server and then they can use
whatever client they want.

Alan