On Tue, 27 Nov 2018 15:04:48 +1100 Erik Christiansen <dva...@internode.on.net> wrote:
> On 26.11.18 21:12, Celejar wrote: > > On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 09:37:21 -0500 > > Mark Neidorff <m...@neidorff.com> wrote: > > > Now, I don't like the webmail interfaces and the limited storage for old > > > > Limited storage? Who - big or small player - offers unlimited storage > > for old emails? > > There are various values for old and limited, in reality. When I'm out > of town for a fortnight, there's usually 1500 to 2k emails piled up on > the ISP's mailhost. Fortunately only a small subset of them are over 1 > MB in size. > > It is fortunately rare for ISPs to block multi-megabyte emails now that > we've left the old millennium behind, as I'm in the process of building, > and local authorities, building surveyors, fire authorities, etc., > mostly issue their documents by email now. > > Still, a few hundred MB usually does it for the fortnight, and the > longer absence over the new year is an email drought, so size would be > similar. > > Those who leave read mail on the ISP's mailhost, due to accessing from > multiple client hosts, are at greater risk of exceeding their quota, and > would naturally look for some extra, I figure. Understood. But the big players - Gmail, Yahoo - are probably the ones offering the largest amount of storage, whether you're accessing the mail via POP3 / IMAP or the webmail interface. Celejar
