On Thursday, August 24, 2017 6:41:58 PM CEST 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:
Cyrus supports server-side search using a local index. Makes searching through emails really fast for webmail clients. Kmail uses akonadi+co to build an index and searching through that goes quite well. Current "unstable" versions seem quite nice. I do use PostgreSQL as backend though. > 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 / # Mine is at about 40G > I use folders to filter my emails. Gentoo for example has a folder for > each list, one for -user, one for -dev etc etc. Since most are text > only, they are tiny things anyway. I also have folders for my financial > stuff too. Few emails outside of spam stay in the regular inbox. Any > email that doesn't end up in a folder is suspicious to me. I'd never > click or tell it to show remote content on any email that is in the > inbox. Rarely do it on one that is filtered. Same here, using sieve-scripts on the server. Eg. mail-filtering is not dependent on the MUA either. > I switched from Kmail long ago. I can't recall what I ran into that > made me change tho. My guess is akonadi. It's what most people don't like, but tbh, I do understand why it was done and after getting it working with PostgreSQL, I haven't had to rebuild it. -- Joost
