On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 10:56 PM, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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?
In Gamil interface ( on browser) it has filters function. Actually even I only touch the debian less than two years, but last 15 years I spent long time with Windows. Shame, I still know so little after so many years passed. > >> clean up? > > Yep :-) I cleaned nearly all. > > 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). Thanks again, > > 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 > > -- 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/cag9cjmkn0shsoi_ay-wetbpz7jiy932nccy5vld+l0thkvu...@mail.gmail.com
