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None of them could, properly, handle hundreds of thousands of emails which I downloaded from my Gmail account to my SSD.

None.

All of them slowed them to a very painful crawl.

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The first time or every single time you opened them?

Doesn’t matter. It shouldn’t happen either way. Linux has a deep seated UI and UX problem.

This is really not about better or worse UX but preferences. Lazy loading means your client will be available from second 1 to open an emaik but would take ages every time you search for something. Building an index at first import allows almost instant search once it is complete.

I compared for instance evolution and outlook, evolution has always had much faster searches.

Having said that, having a bit of digital hygiene goes a long way.

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