Re: NetBSD mail client

[David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On 11 February 2012 16:44, Pierre-Philipp Braun <pbraun%nethence.com@localhost> 
wrote:
> Hi Brook,
>
> you can always use IMAP and let the server do the job (which, in turns,
> leads to questionings about imap server's mail format capabilities.
>
> Back straightly to your question, if you like command line, there used to be
> patches for Pine to enable Maildir.  Maybe the newer Alpine does it too.  As
> for thunderbird, I don't know what mail format it uses but it should be able
> to handle quite some load, doesn't it ?

Yup, alpine can handle maildir (and I've used it on tens of thousands
messages mailboxes for a while), and I would concur that dovecot is a
good place to be IMAP server-wise.
Do you have a preference for text based, GUI, web...?