Download IMAP Emails Fast Application?

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Gawd
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I am looking for a Windows application that would enable me to quickly extract bulk emails from an IMAP server. I trying to help a friend who has 15000+ emails in two separate folders on her IMAP server. She uses Outlook, which is running incredibly slow due to the quantity of emails on the IMAP server. Whenever I try to archive the emails, Outlook freezes, so I'm pretty much looking for an application designed to just fetch and delete emails from an IMAP server.

Anyhow have any suggestions? Feel free to leave questions if my problem is not clear.

Thanks,

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Use mulberry if you want super fast handling and access of IMAP accounts with lots of messages. Some servers will have a fit about mulberry because it opens a zillion connections to the server though, so watch out. You can select messages and save them, but its save feature sucks when trying to save multiple files at once. (Note that mulberry's UI sucks)

Use Sylpheed if you want to backup a folder to an .mbs file. The option is under file -> export to mbox file. It will produce a really good backup. As for speed, with a 7Mbps connection, it will take around 20 minutes per 8000 messages consisting of 25.5MB to fetch the messages and generate the .mbs file. But, it might be faster or slower depending on your system too.

There's Symphony Imap backup, which you can use to backup a complete account. It's not exactly fast, but it handles lots of messages no problem.

If all you want to do is delete some messages, use mulberry. If you want to backup, use Sylpheed.

Thunderbird won't be as fast as mulberry, but it should work fine for accessing lots of messages.

Opera works really good (although not super fast in fetching) with lots of messages. 100000 for example. I usually use Opera with around 20000 messages.
 
Shadow,

Thanks for the reply. I'll definitely check out Sylpheed as a possible solution. Any other suggestions would be appreciated and I'll let you know how it goes.

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