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<p dir="auto">Hi,</p>
<p dir="auto">sorry about the late and long response. I've answered in more detail than I intended to initially :-)</p>
<p dir="auto">Note: The last half of this reply is of general interest to all users of MailMate.</p>
<p dir="auto">On 23 May 2013, at 23:29, CSS wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">That said, I do currently deal with three rather large mail accounts, plus some additional accounts used for archives. I think I basically want to maintain immediate access to more mail than MailMate is designed for due to the "flat" message store. On my older MBP it's most obvious - everything has a bit of a lag, particular paging through or deleting messages; it's just enough lag to make me second guess whether I deleted the right thing. :)</p>
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<p dir="auto">It is hard to say if there is something special in your setup that makes this worse than it is for others. MailMate loads various things lazily which means that the first few minutes you might have small delays when something new is needed, but after that it should be relatively fast.</p>
<p dir="auto">Are you low on memory? Memory usage is one of the aspects of MailMate which I would like to improve for large message stores.</p>
<p dir="auto">Any pattern to the behavior? Do you see it in every mailbox at any time or is it more complicated than that?</p>
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<p dir="auto">I understand that as it stands, MailMate is not made for my usage scenario (giant mailboxes, and less-than-modern hardware), but is there anything to look forward to in the next year or two that might be of interest to someone like me who's eager to ditch Mail.app? I recall reading something in the archives that there may be a time in the future when MM gets a major rewrite to make handling 50K+ messages practical. Are we anywhere near that time?</p>
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<p dir="auto">Some users claim to use MailMate with 500K messages, but I think that requires pretty powerful hardware. I think 50-100K messages should work pretty well.</p>
<p dir="auto">I would like to work on optimizations, but I have (at least) two features which I have promised myself to implement first. This is going to get close to being a public roadmap which I generally do not do, because it often leads to disappointment. In other words, don't take this as a promise of any feature being implemented before any deadline.</p>
<p dir="auto">In my mind, the major missing features in MailMate are:</p>
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<li>Rules (which can be added to any mailbox with actions like “move message”, “tag”, “run script”, etc.)</li>
<li>Commands (essentially scripts executed at certain events including keyboard shortcuts)</li>
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<p dir="auto">The first one is what I'm currently working on and the other one has been partly implemented for a long time, but it still needs some work. I, arrogantly, expect “Commands” to be the mother of all features in MailMate. We'll see, but at least the features above are going to make MailMate what I had originally planned for version 1.0 :-)</p>
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<p dir="auto">Regardless, I think MM is a fantastic mail client and I'll recommend it to anyone who will listen.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Thanks!</p>
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<p dir="auto">As more people move to webmail and social media for messaging, it seems like the market for "power user" MUAs is decreasing.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Well, “power users” are probably the last ones moving away from desktop email clients, but you do have a point. The number of potential users of a desktop email client is decreasing.</p>
<p dir="auto">This is how I see it: Desktops/laptops are going back to primarily being tools for professionals. As this happens the software landscape is also going to change. Naturally, I cannot predict what happens in the future (although I just did), but for an application like MailMate to survive then part of the change has to be that the price on third party software goes up. My guess is there is going to be no more $10 third party email clients. The big question is whether or not there is going to be any third party email clients at all (other than the free ones).</p>
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<p dir="auto">I was truly disappointed that my use case didn't fit MM, as I was very eager to make it my primary mail<br>
client - everything else about it is just about perfect.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Write me an email if you need help to prolong your trial period.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Benny</p>
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