[Tfug] Need a mail app for LARGE volumes of mail...

[Glen Pfeiffer]

On 19 Sep 2010, Jim March wrote:
> I need a mail client that will handle massive piles.  And it 
> has to allow streaming it all in continuously.  We're talking 
> about almost 6gig.  Thunderbird emphatically won't cut it.  
> Dunno about Evolution but I suspect not.  I'm on Maverick.  I 
> have enough embedded graphics/PDFs/etc. to deal with that I 
> need something GUI vs. terminal interface.
> 
> Any clue what I should try?

I have not used it with that much data, but Sylpheed and 
Claws-Mail (a fork of sylpheed) are the only ones I know of that 
has any hopes of handling that much mail. They are much more 
robust than any of the other GUI offerings that I know of.

-- 
Glen