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) -- Joost
