{"id":799,"date":"2007-03-09T18:39:37","date_gmt":"2007-03-09T08:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/09\/pleading-for-a-better-mail-suite\/"},"modified":"2007-03-09T18:39:37","modified_gmt":"2007-03-09T08:39:37","slug":"pleading-for-a-better-mail-suite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/09\/pleading-for-a-better-mail-suite\/","title":{"rendered":"Pleading for a better mail suite&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>or really just all the Evolution bugs that I consistently hit to be fixed.<\/p>\n<p>Why it needs hundreds of megabytes of memory just to list a single mail folder? What could it possibly be doing, loading the entire mailbox into memory? ick..<\/p>\n<p>currently, after a crash &#8220;checking folder consistency&#8221; for at leat 10 minutes now&#8230; and aparrently i haev 13000 unread messages in INBOX. Bull. About 250 more likely. This will probably be some arse load of crack i&#8217;ll have to remove the cache files, restart evo 10 times and sacrifice\u00c2\u00a0 a goat to the gods of crackful annoying-apps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>or really just all the Evolution bugs that I consistently hit to be fixed. Why it needs hundreds of megabytes of memory just to list a single mail folder? What could it possibly be doing, loading the entire mailbox into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/09\/pleading-for-a-better-mail-suite\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gnome"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-cT","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":809,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/28\/patching-your-mission-critical-email-syncing-software-on-your-life-setup-my-offlineimap-patch-for-today\/","url_meta":{"origin":799,"position":0},"title":"Patching your mission-critical email syncing software on your life setup&#8230; my OfflineIMAP patch for today","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2007-03-28","format":false,"excerpt":"I've used OfflineIMAP for quite a while now. 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