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I used claws for some time, but I ended up going back to Thunderbird. The big issue I had was that when I switched to another folder it would freeze for a time. I think it had something to do with the folder size. Sometimes the freeze would be over a minute. After some time I simply had enough. Other than that, I very much liked it.

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I think it's when you have processing rules in place for some or all folders, it seems they get applied to all messages again every time you open a folder. Normal filter rules don't expose that behavior, and I've been too lazy to look up what the difference is supposed to be. However, ever since I only add rules to "configuration" -> "filter..." I can switch between 5k+ message folders instantly (using IMAP).

I had no processing rules.

That's really my only complaint as well, sometimes the whole thing just freeze, I'm sure it does something in the background, but there's very little feedback.

One way to fix it might be to some mail retrieval agent that supports MH format and just read the emails that way. It's a little old-school though.

I do like the interface, it's much let busy that more modern email clients, and it have everything I need.

Yep, unfortunately the network and folder loading code is really slow in Claws. There's lots of scope for improvement but no real development effort towards it - a few years ago I made some patches fixing a few low-hanging fruit but they were just left to rot and it hasn't improved since.

It seems to do IO on the UI thread.

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