Re: NetBSD mail client

[Steven Bellovin <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Feb 11, 2012, at 11:24 AM, Brook Milligan wrote:

> I have to manage thousands of email messages in my inbox and am
> looking for a mail client that will handle this well.  Every one I
> have tried so far maintains the messages in mbox format, which leads
> to massively large files even when split apart into various folders.
> I think it would be better if the messages were managed by the client
> in maildir format instead so that each message is a single file.
> 
> Are there any recommendations on what would be useful for this?
> 
You don't say if you want command line or GUI.  I'm partial to
claws-mail.  It uses MH format, rather than maildir, but MH is also
one message per file.


                --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb