I just counted over 25,000 email messages on my home system. All the emails are in MH format (I used exmh a number of years ago). My email client is sylpheed-claws. It is relatively stable. My email is kept in hierachial folders, and although I subscribe to a number of email lists, like this, I generally do not save the emails since I can always go to the archives. I use procmail recipes to filter emails into various folders leaving the inbox open for a small number of emails and unlearned SPAM. I run postfix as my MTA with port 25 open in my firewall. I also use fetchmail to grab email from my ISP. While I have had some crashes with sylpheed-claws, it has held up very well in contrast to KMail that I use at work, although I do find KMail to be excellent also. One caveat about sylpheed-claws is that it does not have the capability to create html. It can read html emails using either dillo or gtk2 plugins. I generally build from sources, but RPMs are available. Additionally, claws has the ability to add actions, which can be simple scripts. It is a good light-weight client for both Linux and Windows and uses the GTK2 libraries. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com