Because we were talking about someone who had never used linux before,
so doubtful that they could host, install, and admin their own IMAP server.
Bryan O'Neal wrote:
Excuse my squirrely logic here, but what is the difference between
connecting to Goggles imap server and connecting to your own. If the client
can not handle the amount of mail on a professionally hosted server why
could it handle it better connecting to your own server?
-----Original Message-----
From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
[mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Alan
Dayley
Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 8:31 PM
To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: Which EMail reader for BIG volumes of mail?
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Craig White <craigwh...@azapple.com> wrote:
----
Evolution looks/feels like Outlook which may provide comfort. I have
used it for many years and I'm comfortable with it and I am on a lot
of mail lists and often get 1000+ e-mails a day.
I find that less important than the actual e-mail program used is how
e-mail is stored because if you have a LOT of e-mail, local stores of
POP3 account e-mail in mbox can really drag down the performance and
make it hard to move from program to program.
I know some will think this is overkill but I think that the only way
to go is to run your own IMAP server, use fetchmail or getmail to
retrieve e-mail from various accounts if you have to and use dovecot
or cyrus-imapd to provide IMAP to mail clients. This way, you can use
whatever mail program you want or try them all and from various
computers and your mail is already marked read/replied to/deleted etc.
Once a serious e-mail user catches on to the value of having your own
IMAP server, they will never give it up.
I completely agree with Craig. It's silly to expect any email client to
handle 2GB of email a day. If they are getting that, they need an
infrastructure to handle it. Get an IMAP server and then they can use
whatever client they want.
Alan
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