On Jan 20, 2016, at 11:18 AM, Macs R We <[email protected]> wrote: > Mail's IMAP defaults are tuned to pure cloud-based operation, which frankly > most people do not need. Sure, being able to access any piece of mail or any > draft created on any device from every other device you own is a "cool > feature," but most people are never going to need it or use it, and the > overhead is massive. Turn off "keep sent mail / drafts / trash on the > server" and your overhead goes down considerably. Same goes for keeping > named archival mailboxes on your server.
I disagree most strongly, and not just for me, but for people who really do not understand mail an would have no idea what IMAP means. For example, someone I provide support for has a Mac mini and an iPhone. She uses her computer for her mailing list (as in envelopes and stamps and labels and going to the post office) Facebook, and email. She is as far from a power user as it’s possible to be. When she discovered that email she’d started on her phone was available on her computer it was very exciting for her. She was absolutely thrilled. If I’d tried to explain the feature to her she would never have understood it nor seen the slightest value in it. But when she abandoned a mail on her iPhone because it was too hard to type out what she wanted and say she was able to simply continue the mail on her computer… That was like magic. As for Mial.app’s abilities to handle large mail stores, I have may hundreds of thousands of emails in several accounts and Mail.app handles them just fine. In fact, I had to split an archive mailbox with 430,000 emails in it because the SERVER wasn’t able to handle the mail folder that large. Mail.app was fine with it. Yes, that was one folder, albeit the largest one. -- "Esprit de corpse," said the Senior Wrangler. Ridcully glared at him _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
