On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Sarunas Burdulis <saru...@math.dartmouth.edu> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 01/17/2011 04:45 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> Last week I decided to back up some of my mails from my gmail >> account. I remember that there used to be gmailfs mechanism for this. >> However the package is not available on my debian/squeeze anymore. >> I also tried using the imap service, using evolution, but it became >> quickly a nightmare (it is just impossible to retrieve just a single >> mail). I even selected 'Basic Headers' from the IMAP headers >> preferences in evolution. >> >> What are other people using when there gmail mailbox is becoming big ? >> >> Thanks ! > > I use Thunderbird with several IMAP accounts, including Gmail. Moving > mail is usually a matter of drag'n'drop. I use Thunderbird's Local > Folders to copy mail into local MBX files for backups and personal archives.
Just FYI, I finally decided to use thunderbird/icedove ... and it worked like a charm (well it is *much* faster) ! I do not know why evolution is so slow (this is the same DSL connection)... Thunderbird was a blast to configure (assuming you know your gmail adress...), and the only other configurations I used are described at: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78892 eg: browser.cache.memory.capacity & mail.server.default.fetch_by_chunks Thanks everyone ! -- Mathieu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktioouwrphr2kmmp2+9an_vf9i7g1n7mxrna...@mail.gmail.com