[Discuss] Running a mail server, or not

[dsr at randomstring.org (Dan Ritter)]

On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 07:40:41PM -0400, Richard Pieri wrote:
> On 6/28/2018 7:32 PM, epp at linuxmail.org wrote:
> > For a community-developed app, it /would/ be nice to see K-9 updated a 
> > little more frequently than 6 months.
> 
> Again, so what?
> 
> > Maildroid, which AFAIK, is not community-developed, has more frequent 
> > updates. This might be a better alternative.
> 
> Actually, frequent updates to a mail program suggests to me:
> 
> * It's buggy
> * It's missing essential features
> * It's being padded with fluff in order to say "new!" on the app store
> * or some combination of the above
> 
> None of which are likely to endear me to that program.

The issues list is here:

https://github.com/k9mail/k-9/issues

Top issue right now is that it doesn't handle 100K messages. Not
messages which are 100 KB in size -- 100,000 messages in an
inbox.

And note that the problem has the simple workaround for sane
people of limiting the retrieval and indexing to the first
20,000 messages or so...

I don't think K9 is in dire need of biweekly updates.


-dsr-