KMail and its UI freezes while fetching/sorting mail

[Nils Breunese (Lemonbit Internet)]

Gene Heskett wrote:

> This has about worn me out, to the extent that I'm looking for another
> email agent that can fetch from the local /var/spool/mail/user
> spoolfile fetchmail uses, run it thru SA, and deposit it for  
> reading in
> the /root/Mail directory 100% compatible with the kmail way of doing
> things.
>
> Thunderbird can't, sylpheed can't that I can figure out.  Are there  
> any
> other email agents with as friendly a gui as kmail but do all the
> housekeeping 100% in the background?

I know evolution uses spamassassin to filter spam. Thunderbird has  
its own spam filter system, so if you don't really need SA  
specifically you could use that. I don't know how these clients work  
with local spoolfiles though.

> Alternatively, is there a way to make fetchmail do the SA invocation,
> leaving the sorting to kmail?  That would help considerably.

Maybe use procmail?

Nils.