[Dovecot] OT: Looking for a robust IMAP client

Udo Rader
2008-12-15T18:08:53Z

Stewart Dean schrieb:
> 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?

alpine, the official successor of pine: