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? :-) -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
