I want an email client that can download all of my existing Gmail emails and then i can search for them quickly. I have tried Thunderbird, Mailspring, Clawmail, Geary. Some of them can download all of the emails, but when it comes to time to search, they often freeze. Thus, I would then need to do the old fashion way: open up a browser and login from there.

Is Mutt ok with such requirements? Any other alternatives?

I also use GrapheneOS on my phone. Before I had Fairmail for my Gmail account but the search feature is quite buggy. So… even though i know it is shitty, I have to use the official Gmail app for my Gmail stuff. It gets the jobs done: i can search for an email 3 months ago or follow up on an old email thread very quickly.

  • yuman@programming.dev
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    13 hours ago

    my machine lags yours by about 7-8 generations and has zero problems with the same task. I’ve imported 15+ 20+ years worth of emails from multiple gmail accounts into a local server’s dovecot IMAP server (and thunderbird has a local copy). no part of that thing freezes or does anything of the sort OP describes.