Mail.app vs other clients?

[pixated]

So... I'm slowly but surely growing tired of Thunderbird. I used Mail.app almost exclusively on Tiger, however when I upgraded to Leopard it became a nightmare. Half the time it didn't work, and when it did it kept timing out. I have roughly 20 IMAP accounts which contain roughly 20,000+ e-mails. How good is Mails IMAP handling these days? Does it still create an insane number of connections per account? Also, I'd appreciate some comments from people with 10k< mails on it's performance etc.

Cheers. :)

[instant.human]

i had about 13k mails, on two accounts, until i cleaned it up last week.

however, the performance was not the reason for cleaning. imho it worked great.

here and there a little lag maybe but that was about it and i think that was more because of my getting-older-macbook. ;)

[CPressland]

I have about 5000 e-mails on my MobileMe account using Mail.app and it handles it fine

[Cormier6083]

The most eMails I've ever had in my inbox was 27. :wacko:

[General Disarray]

Its fine with my normal inbox ~5000 emails

But with my other mailbox ~175,000 emails.. it is not usable

[pixated]

Its fine with my normal inbox ~5000 emails

But with my other mailbox ~175,000 emails.. it is not usable

175k mails. And I thought I had a lot. :D

What do you use for your other mailbox then?

[what]

The most eMails I've ever had in my inbox was 27. :wacko:

Amateur :whistle:

[Scorbing]

Its fine with my normal inbox ~5000 emails

But with my other mailbox ~175,000 emails.. it is not usable

Why on Earth would you want to save 175,000 emails?

[instant.human]

Why on Earth would you want to save 175,000 emails?

probably a lot of facebook-notices for new messages and all. but somewhere in between might that magic presentation be hidden...

at least thats what it was like in my inbox.

you wont need, let alone ever read all of your 100.000, 150.000, 1.000.000 mails again but you never really know what you might put in your trash if you didnt do that right away...

about 60% of my 13k inbox was kinda "important". the rest was unfiltered spam, facebook-notices or one-line-mails like "im gonna make it til 8.". ;)

but that might be just me. maybe all you fancy businessmen really have 150k+ highly important mails in your inbox. :p

[pixated]

Gah. So I gave Mail.app another try. Same result...

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And this is not even with my accounts that have the biggest amount of mail on them.

Edited October 8, 2008 by Dannyarr

[Quillz]

I like that Mail does some kind of auto-configuration or whatever. It's the only mail client that's easily set up my Gmail account. I can get it working in the others, but I have to always change the server settings and what not. It's probably the best mail client on the Mac, although I did like Entourage 2008. Thunderbird works well on Windows but I don't like it as much on the Mac.