The ideal mail client?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 10:43 +0100, José Matos wrote:
> On Monday 03 August 2009 23:46:30 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> >
> > POP and IMAP are two very different animals. AFAIK Kmail was designed as
> > a POP client and had IMAP added later. Every so often I take another
> > look at Kmail's IMAP support and get the impression it's still not quite
> > there, e.g. when reconnecting to a large folder it seemed to spend an
> > inordinate amount of time doing something (indexing? synching? cacheing?
> > no idea) before I could see any messages. Note that I don't mean the
> > first visit to the folder, which would be understandable, but every
> > visit.
> 
> I use cached imap on kmail with good results. It is fast and since the 
> messages are also stored locally it is quite fast.

Is that a setting? If so, I hadn't noticed it.

> The only precaution worth of note is not to subscribe the "All Mail" folder 
> for gmail accounts.

Of course :-)

poc