On 5.4.2012, at 20.02, Charles Marcus wrote: > On 2012-04-05 12:37 PM, Tom Hendrikx <t...@whyscream.net> wrote: >> The first interesting point I'd see with this, is that you supply the >> mail client with a near endless supply of folders, which would take a >> lot of caching space on the clients end, either (depending on the client >> and its configuration) from the moment that you enable this fort hem, or >> after someone starts searching in their 'time machine' for some old mail. > > Since we use Thunderbird, I can of course disable offline mode for everyone, > so the only time headers would be downloaded would be when the user selects > (or performs a search on) one (or more) of the folders.
Do they need to be accessible via Thunderbird, or maybe only via a webmail? Or perhaps a secondary (normally disabled?) TB account where you've specified a "backup/" namespace prefix (which is normally hidden)?
