16,000 e-mails: alpine 2.20 e-mail client vs. thunderbird 60.0b
Channel: Iggy Mogo
Date: 2018-09-07

trotting through over 16,000 e-mail in:

thunderbird = 1 minute and 14 seconds 
alpine = 57 seconds 

winner: alpine by ~17 seconds and the raspberry pi zero w!
music via http://freemusicarchive.org/music/junior85/Imposter_Syndrome/everypage

* thunderbird was run natively on a desktop computer with an Intel Q9550 cpu / 8g of ram / a typical sata drive - Ubuntu Mate 18.04 LTS 

* alpine was run remotely via ssh session on a Raspberry Pi Zero W - ARM with 512mb ram, with a 16g sdcard - latest Raspbian.