[MlMt] [MIMt] Future plans?

[Christopher LILJENSTOLPE]

Greetings,

On 23 May 2013, at 14:29, CSS wrote:

> Hello,

> The announcement of the new beta today reminded me of why I joined the 
> list…

> I went through the trial period, and I was very happy with MailMate in 
> general.  The interface and features are pretty much exactly what I 
> was looking for in my quest for the perfect OS-X mail client 
> (currently back on Mail.app, previously tried Postbox and 
> Thunderbird).

> 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. :)

> 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?

> Regardless, I think MM is a fantastic mail client and I'll recommend 
> it to anyone who will listen.  As more people move to webmail and 
> social media for messaging, it seems like the market for "power user" 
> MUAs is decreasing.  I was truly disappointed that my use case didn't 
> fit MM, as I was very eager to make it my primary mail client - 
> everything else about it is just about perfect.

I'm running about 200K messages - no appreciable delay (unless I have to 
do an index rebuild or re-init my local store).

	Christopher


> Thanks,

> Charles
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