[lug] email client for linux

[Davide Del Vento]

>> if you have any suggestion about email client on linux, that'd be good
>> too
>
> This is the best GUI e-mail client. Ever.
> http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/

Thanks for the suggestions. I have two questions:

1) how the conversation view is handled with respect to
folder/directories? One thing that greatly bothers me with
Thunderbird, is that if I have a conversation and then archive it or
move it to a folder, when someone later reply to that conversation, I
got the new message in inbox, but I do not get the rest of the
conversation, nor any information about where I stored it. Paired with
the terrible search capabilities of Thunderbird (I often prefer to
manually recursively grep in its files!) that makes a huge PITA.
Does sylpheed mimic Thunderbird, or does it mimic gmail (which places
the whole conversation back in your inbox for you to examine, and
still does preserve the information of the folder/label where I
previously stored it)?

2) it looks like sylpheed stores each email as an individual message.
While this seems a good way to solve the corruption issues that
plagued early versions of Thunderbird, it looks like an even better
way to tax the filesystem, both in terms of seeks and in terms of
inodes. Just to get an idea on how this scales (and not to nose): how
many emails do you receive per day, and how many do you keep? How
often do you search them and with what responsiveness? I couldn't find
info about an index, which would be essential for searching (recursive
grepping) in thousands and thousand of files! I need something that
would scale gracefully in terms of hundreds of emails per day received
and about half saved - kept "forever" (what? am I gonna die? Ok, let's
say for 10 years - hope to live much longer than that, but I'm ok with
just 10 years of email storage)

Thanks!!
Davide