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. At one point, I had them going back to 2003 which is when I built my first rig. Dale :-) :-)
