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Hi Foxes!

When you are dealing with many mail account, you know, it takes a lot of time. Firrst, you have to found an efficient email client, and that is very difficult. Plus, today, everyone is using IMAP protocol to deal with email, if it is not the HTTPS provided from GMAIL or another webmail gateway.

So, according to some reading, the best combo is to use a local IMAP server which will retrieve/fetch mails from a remote server to the local server, then use a regular mail client to read mail which are on the local computer. So, reading is fast, search is fast too, and you can read your mails offline too :D.

I let you read this comment.

So, one nice solution may be to use :

• offlineimap to create a maildir mail database from a remote IMAP server. It needs Python.
• use an email client which fully support maildir database OR use a POP/IMAP local server such :
• dovecot on linux
• xmail server on linux and windows
• UW Imap on windows and linux. No more under development
• panda imap
• an email cliant such GNUS (emacs), Mutt, Alpine, etc.

Such combinaison is described there for MacOS.

Another solution is to use a local mail server which can retrieve mails from a remote server, such as :

• hmailserver is working pretty nice under windows. You should read ALL the documentation. Everything is on the website. It is quite easy to configure everything.

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