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.

  • Mucki@feddit.org
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    13 hours ago

    Really never had any problems with that. The only mail app I know that made problems indexing mails or keeping the index intact was Microslop Outlook for Mac. Anyways, lean back and search for the fault outside of the software scope. I guess you have either hardware issues or system configuration issues. With any mail app it should also be possible to reindex all mails. If your app stores mails as files you can also just grep the Mail folder and crossreference the E-mail’s unique ID and then access it through your app. Also fairmail’s search feature always worked flawlessly for me.