[Dovecot] OT: Looking for a robust IMAP client

Rick Romero
2008-12-15T17:51:04Z

Stewart Dean wrote:
> This weekend we had a runaway email endless loop.  When it was killed
> after 18 hours, my inbox had 135,000 messages in it...there were two
> messages that were being endlessly sent and bounced and I'm on the
> postmaster alias.  Thunderbird was able to do a mass select of one of
> the two messages, and deleted 65,000, but after that it locked up.  I
> ended up firing up Pine to do the final 65,000...whereas TBird had had
> mulitple imap sessions (and failed), Pine only had one and did the job.
> And even after I had done the mass delete of the other 65,000 and the
> inbox was down to 2000 messages, TBird was still hiding under the
> covers and telling me there were still 135,000 messages.  In the end,
> I had to kill the TBird profile for that account and recreate it.
>
> Is there a simple robust IMAP client to replace Pine (which I *think*
> is no longer supported)?  GUI or TTY session?
>
> I'm wondering if there is something we can tell users to use when
> Things Are Dire.  GUI would be better since it removes one of the few
> remaining reasons for a logon server
I think Evolution handles large bundles of mail really well - though on
Windows it's a bit of a mess of an application.  It doesn't do single
large messages very quickly though.

Alternately, if you're using Maildir, you could always grep and rm.

Rick