On 3/1/2011 6:56 AM, [email protected] wrote: > The pithy ruminations from Lynda<[email protected]> > with the subject "[lopsa-discuss] Experience with Sylpheed/Claws?" were:
Yes, I *did* just go through the pain of reformatting this, since I'm dealing with TBird, and it's not honoring your choice of quoting style. I also have to say that I truly appreciate the answers I've received, off list and on, and that it's been extremely helpful. I will now attempt to make myself more clear (yeah, I know, good luck). >> Anyway, I pop a couple of them, using Sylpheed (via FreeBSD) and >> Claws (via Ubuntu). I probably will do this with all of them, but am >> looking for experience with either package from other folks. Please >> note that I've been using both of those for quite some time. My >> concern is with volume of mail that they can handle, and with number > Volume, in the world of email clients, is generally an issue in 2 > realms: Ah, I can see that I made a tactical error in my description. I've implied that the volume would remain high (it won't). I'm pretty excited to see that there are others using this, since I really like the lightweight footprint. I'm not looking for other choices for a client, but was hoping against hope for another FreeBSD user of Sylpheed/Claws. On the other hand, I'm just happy to see that there are users of Claws (my guess is you are using Debian/Ubuntu). > messages/day download > if you've got 1GB of mail 'on > servers' since 2004, that's > roughly 40KB/day...not a lot Here's the really funny part. That's more than 20 separate gmail accounts. In addition, there's 335 mb in TBird. The whole thing totals a gig. Most things aren't worth saving. I'm amazed that I have 1GB that *is* worth saving. I already have email from 1990 through 2004 on a Ubuntu/Claws install, which is what made me realize that I could simplify my life further (and reduce the annoyance factor of using a web browser to read email, too). > Based on the minimal& incomplete description of your environment& > goal, and a lot of guessing on my part, I'd say that: > the initial download of 1GB of stored mail may be slow (due to > server-side speed, network, client-side mail filtering& sorting) but > doesn't sound unreasonable Actually, the two accounts I'd already popped have been a cakewalk. Google stuff works, I just want much less of it. >> ...If I pop all the email that I'm interested in >> saving, it will probably total about one gig (I am amazed to realize >> that I've had a gmail account from 2004). > What's your question? > It sounds like you're asking whether claws-mail can use the POP > protocol to retrieve 1GB of mail from a server. If that's the > question...sure it can. I was looking for people who had used Claws or Sylpheed/Claws to manage large volumes of mail. I am enormously grateful to find experiences, at least on the Linux side. I will get rid of almost all the gmail accounts, but plan to continue to pop, long term, for four of them. You just can't beat the spam filtering. You guys are the best. -- Amor fati. Vale. (Seneca) _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
