On 24/08/2017 22:20, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Thursday, August 24, 2017 9:35:23 PM CEST Dale wrote: >> Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> On 24/08/2017 18:41, Dale wrote: >>>> J. Roeleveld wrote: >>>>> On 24 August 2017 17:15:25 GMT+02:00, Alan McKinnon > <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>> Thunderbird. >>>>>> >>>>>> I have no formatting or storage problems as local mail is kept in >>>>>> dovecot imap folders and every client out there can read them. MUA >>>>>> incompatibilities just do not happen to me anymore. >>>>>> >>>>>> I prefer my MUA to be a reader and an editor and a sender and a >>>>>> fetcher. >>>>>> Never a storer. >>>>> >>>>> I use Cyrus IMAP for storage and postfix for SMTP. >>>>> My mail clients only use IMAP and SMTP to my own server. >>>>> >>>>> With multiple devices, local storage makes no sense. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Joost >>>> >>>> I store mine locally because I search them when I run into a issue. >>>> I've got emails going back to 2006. Even if my internet is down, at >>>> least I can search old list emails to see if I can find a clue to fix >>>> what I'm running into. Of course when you do that, you run into this: >>>> >>>> root@fireball / # du -shc >>>> /home/dale/.mozilla/seamonkey/q6o6ulhz.default/Mail/ >>>> 3.9G /home/dale/.mozilla/seamonkey/q6o6ulhz.default/Mail/ >>>> 3.9G total >>>> root@fireball / # >>> >>> 4G???? is that all??? >>> >>> pressed for space much? :-) >> >> I don't recall the limits on gmail but I know sometimes, I have to go >> clean house on the google web mail site itself. It is supposed to >> delete after downloading but sometimes it doesn't for some reason. Who >> knows. > > GMail used to be at 1GB when they started. Already back then that would not > have been enough for me. My mailstore has been cleaned up occasionally (spam > and alert-mails being cleaned up regularly): > > mailstore1 ~ # du -sh /var/spool/imap/j/user/joost > 42G /var/spool/imap/j/user/joost > > (This is only my personal email, the email archive of my wife and the shared > stuff isn't in this)
If I let them, the eejits running the telco where I work would dump that much mail in my inbox yearly![1] But it's Office 365[2] and they pay, so I don't care - stupid must feel pain[3] [1] The eejits all feel so important they HAVE TO announce to the whole company as a mail every change in every procedure, every new appointment, every marketing splurb and every event being held. All in HTML with pictures and shit, and giant sigs. And half the eejit recipients feel the need to reply to all saying only "Ooooh! shiny!" [2] Which has still to learn the trick of how to delete all attachments except the first copy [3] In this case, I'd be willing to s/pain/enormous amounts of pain, on shaming youtube video/g -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
