On Sun, 04 Sep 2011 22:34:09 +0800, lina wrote: > On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Before setting up your Gmail account to use it with your e-mail client >> you should first "clean up" your inbox/folders because you can have > > inbox/folders ? Yes. If you have all of your messages stored/archived in your inbox Icedove will suffer to download/get all that amount of data. It's better to have sub-folders so you can classify your e-mails and put in there a small set of messages. > I have inbox and different folders ( folders are not in the inbox > directory). Hum... are that Gmail default folders (sent/all/trash...) or have you manually created them? > clean up? Yep :-) Gmail has the strange ability to fill up very quickly and we tend to forget to completely remove e-mails that we don't want anymore. It's the price we have to pay in this "cloud-based" world: we forget about basic maintenance and let the provider to do the "dirty" job. >> stored there thousand of messages that can take very long to download. >> >> Were you using POP3 or IMAP to get your Gmail's e-mails in Icedove? > > IMAP. Then arrange your inbox and let Ivecove to gather the data. The first time will take some time but once it indexes and caches the folder it will be quicker. > P.S Before I tried the icedove, > mainly just wanna download thousands of emails from windows live account > to backup (It's kind of "official" email box I used for years). > Right now I wonder I maybe do backup in different machine, such as use > outlook. will try another time. I guess Outlook will suffer for the same as Icedove (it will be slow). But if you want to make a backup for a small set of messages, I think there are specialized tools to achieve that task (e.g., gmail backup). Greetings, -- Camaleón -- 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/pan.2011.09.04.14.56...@gmail.com
