A minimal email TUI where you read with Markdown and write in Neovim.
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| FETCH (200 emails) | 76ms |
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| MOVE (1 email) | 46ms |
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**Outlook/Office365** — folder switch: **~269ms total** (8x slower than Hostpoint)
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| SELECT | 45ms |
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| UID SEARCH | 22ms |
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| FETCH (10 emails) | 180ms |
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| MOVE (1 email) | 21ms |
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**Gmail** — folder switch: **~570ms total** (17x slower than Hostpoint)
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| UID SEARCH | 180ms |
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| FETCH (2 emails) | 190ms |
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| MOVE (1 email) | 339ms |
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**Outlook/Office365** (with OAuth2 authentication and different network - not really comparable, but gives a indication) — folder switch: **~269ms total** (8x slower than Hostpoint)
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Interestingly, Gmail benchmarks fast on a **fresh single connection** (`scripts/imap-benchmark.sh` shows ~70ms total, same as Hostpoint). But on a **sustained session** with sequential commands — which is how neomd actually uses IMAP — Gmail adds ~180ms latency per command. This is likely Gmail's internal label-to-folder translation and session management overhead. The result: every action in neomd feels much slower on Gmail, while Hostpoint stays instant.
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