[nzlug] All email clients suck, no exceptions

[elroy]

Scott Newton wrote:

>I have Kontact running on SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 here at work 
>talking to Microsoft Exchange with a mailbox having 20 000+ messages.
>

My mail stores (Inbox/Sent/half a dozen other stores) are around 200MB 
in size * (total), and contain ~29,000 messages (yes, three zeros :-) ) 
- mainly mailing list posts.

I can do a search on the body of ALL messages for the keyword 'the' - 
which gives ~28,500 matches - this search took ~12 seconds max.


Subsequent searches exactly the same as before take 6 seconds - 
obviously due to caching.



Hardware:
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Intel Core 2 Duo 6300 (1.86GHz)
2GB RAM
Seagate ST3320620AS (320GB/SATA/16MB Cache/7,200RPM)

Software:
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Ubuntu 6.06
Mozilla 1.7.12 (suite, with mail/browser/etc. in one).


I'm curious how other mail clients perform?


* I've had previous versions of Mozilla with mail stores >1GB - starts 
to get a little sluggish, although it was on a P-2 350MHz with 384?MB 
RAM :-)



Cheers,

Elroy.


P.S: 'apt-get install stopwatch' if you were wondering ;-)