On Mar 24, 2006, at 3:50 PM, Ershad Shafi Chowdhury wrote:
> What are your suggestions for handling large mailboxes. Typically my
> inbox
> is about 2 - 3GB per year. Thunderbird is croaking. Here's what I am
> thinking ..
>
> 1. Use a local Imap server and keep mail locally on the imap server,
> without
> downloading to evolution or Outlook/thunderbird (/gasp! yes i still
> use
> windows)
I have somewhat a similar situation, and the only reasonable and
affordable solution I've found is an IMAP server with a client that
does local caching and supports an index database. If you don't have
the luxury of a client that can cache all your IMAP messages and
supports a local index database, then another choice is to run Cyrus
locally and use a good IMAP client. Cyrus basically stores everything
in the maildir format, and tops it off with an index database. However,
note the caveats: (a) not all IMAP clients are born equal, so pick one
that actually supports some of the newer features in IMAP v4, and (b)
haven't a clue whether you can run Cyrus on a Windows machine.
I've also converted some of my very large mailboxes, mostly old GNU
development mailing lists and such, into web archives and then let
htdig do its job. Very handy for quick lookup.
> 2. Use thunderbird/evolution and just keep a bunch of folders and
> subfolders. (this is what I am doing now but i hate organizing it all
> the
> time)
That does work quite well, but like you say, it's a pain to manage and
maintain. But the real problem is that it forces you to over-classify
email. Gmail's idea of labeling would be nice here.
> 3. get a recommendation for a good mail reader with fast responses for
> mailboxes that size! Hopefully one that use a db to store the email!
Murphy's law -- the database will be corrupted, and there will be no
way to fix it. That's why the index database was born! Apple Mail has
it, and I'm sure others do too.
My recommendation - find a IMAP client that builds and uses an index
database using a local IMAP server (any decent one will do, but you may
have to use one that doesn't use a flat directory structure), or simply
go cyrus with a decent IMAP client that uses IMAP v4 SEARCH primitives.
Mumit
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