500 KB is huge. That's so true. Compare to the mutt package, a fully features mail client, weighting in at ~1.8 MiB — without the need for an additional gigant

500 KB is huge. That's so true. Compare to the mutt package, a fully features mail client, weighting in at ~1.8 MiB — without the need for an additional gigantic runtime. I'm not saying mutt is an alternative to GMail for most people. But just to give some feeling for the size relations here.