I'll try Evolution, thanks for that Herbert. Tamas On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Herbert Graf wrote: > On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 14:47 -0400, solarwind wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Tamas Rudnai > wrote: > > > I tried many email clients for Gmail, but all of them have problems > with my > > > PIClist folder... It has something like 10k mails and they cannot seem > to be > > > able to handle it. They are either ridiculously slow or even crashing > on it. > > > So what I could do is to disable PIClist from the client, but then what > is > > > the advantage of using a client instead of the web interface? > > > > > > Anybody else has similar problems or solutions? > > > > Yes, that is the disadvantage of IMAP and most IMAP clients. > > Perhaps 10,000 is a hard number? I just checked, my "saved messages" > folder has 7364 messages and my "sent items" folder has 5061 items > (emails back to 2004). Both folders access very quickly, even over my > paltry 800kbps DSL upload. > > Initially it did take a while to build the index locally, but aside from > that Evolution has no problem with IMAP folders with that many messages > in them. > > TTYL > > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > -- http://www.mcuhobby.com -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist