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I hope it stands out it's promisses. My Gmail account is not usable on any gnu/linux IMAP client.

readme 13y ago
OK, so I assume by that you also mean GPL software, because mozilla thunderbird is pretty damn good. I use it to manage 4 gmail accounts.
- dragansah 13y ago
  Thunderbird is better than evolution. But also gets stuck. Pretty unusable for me.
qb45 13y ago
Not exactly a part of the GNU (or Linux) project, but Sylpheed works with Gmail over IMAP.
- jeltz 13y ago
  What is the difference between Sylpheed and Claws? Claws seems to be a fork from the Sylpheed project.
  - andyking 13y ago
    I wanted to know the same, so I looked it up on Wikipedia: Formerly known as Sylpheed-Claws, it [Claws] started in April 2001 as the development version of Sylpheed, where new features could be tested and debugged, but evolved enough to now be a completely separate program. It forked completely from Sylpheed in August 2005.
TsiCClawOfLight 13y ago
evolution?
- jeltz 13y ago
  Last time I checked evolution too had performance problems and was buggy. No idea if that has changed in the last 2 or 3 years.
  - TsiCClawOfLight 13y ago
    AFAIK it works well now.
  - X4 13y ago
    I really liked evolution, but after using it for a while I noticed how hard it is to keep things organized with it. So I went back to Thunderbird.
thelittlelisper 13y ago
Mutt / Notmuch + isync (mbsync) / offlineimap works fine...
Tobu 13y ago
It does stay responsive while scanning a large (200k) [Gmail]/All mail folder, but apparently it has a single connection to Gmail because no other folders or messages can be obtained during the download. After about five minutes it has a basic list of headers (but not the subjects) and there seems to be more concurrency. It would be better if it chunked the large scan and allowed other operations to complete (assuming progressive scanning is possible).
- jkt_ 13y ago
  Interesting, because the only slow action when opening mailboxes is fetching and applying the thread index, and gmail does not support that particular feature. Which means I don't really know how it can take a "few minutes" on GMail -- all it does it simply fetching the UIDs...

OK, so I assume by that you also mean GPL software, because mozilla thunderbird is pretty damn good. I use it to manage 4 gmail accounts.

dragansah 13y ago
Thunderbird is better than evolution. But also gets stuck. Pretty unusable for me.

qb45 13y ago

Not exactly a part of the GNU (or Linux) project, but Sylpheed works with Gmail over IMAP.

jeltz 13y ago
What is the difference between Sylpheed and Claws? Claws seems to be a fork from the Sylpheed project.
- andyking 13y ago
  I wanted to know the same, so I looked it up on Wikipedia: Formerly known as Sylpheed-Claws, it [Claws] started in April 2001 as the development version of Sylpheed, where new features could be tested and debugged, but evolved enough to now be a completely separate program. It forked completely from Sylpheed in August 2005.

TsiCClawOfLight 13y ago

evolution?

jeltz 13y ago
Last time I checked evolution too had performance problems and was buggy. No idea if that has changed in the last 2 or 3 years.
- TsiCClawOfLight 13y ago
  AFAIK it works well now.
- X4 13y ago
  I really liked evolution, but after using it for a while I noticed how hard it is to keep things organized with it. So I went back to Thunderbird.

thelittlelisper 13y ago

Mutt / Notmuch + isync (mbsync) / offlineimap works fine...

Tobu 13y ago

It does stay responsive while scanning a large (200k) [Gmail]/All mail folder, but apparently it has a single connection to Gmail because no other folders or messages can be obtained during the download. After about five minutes it has a basic list of headers (but not the subjects) and there seems to be more concurrency. It would be better if it chunked the large scan and allowed other operations to complete (assuming progressive scanning is possible).

jkt_ 13y ago
Interesting, because the only slow action when opening mailboxes is fetching and applying the thread index, and gmail does not support that particular feature. Which means I don't really know how it can take a "few minutes" on GMail -- all it does it simply fetching the UIDs...