On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Mathieu Malaterre <mathieu.malate...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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
Just for reference I gave up on icedove/thunderbird, it would simply sit, do nothing and fill up 38% of my 4Gb memory for downloading a folder of ~4000 messages. I gave up on firefox/iceweasel a couple of weeks ago for chromium for the exact same reason. I am giving imapsync a try. -- 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/AANLkTin53MGavHRDS7_hgBTwaPJu5o_itM=ymu6ba...@mail.gmail.com
