"J. Roeleveld" <jo...@antarean.org> wrote: > 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
That's really a lot. :-) And I thought mine is huge. ~ $ du -hs Mail/ 14G Mail/ -- Regards wabe
