On Sun, 11 Jan 2015, Matt Lawrence wrote:
Everything lives on the server, I ssh and run (al)pine locally to access my
mail spool locally, no POP3 or IMAP in use at all. Current mail storage is
mbox. Yeah, really, really old fashioned, the original server was a 386 with
16M or RAM running Debian sometime in the mid to late 1990s.
Sounds like what I have. If you are hitting a 2G limit you could just move
some of the older emails to a separate mail folder or 10 (perhaps 1 per
year or one per month) and still keep more or less the same setup. As long
as no single mbox file is too big it should be a problem. I have 200MB
mbox files that pine/alpine seems to handle okay (well they take a minute
to load)
A few months ago I did re-arrange me email so that the INBOXs were on an
imap server and I could read them on my phone. I found that there are a
*lot* of different HOWTOs for setting up IMAP, most of which were aimed
at a larger scale than just my personal stuff. You might find the write-up
I did close to the scale you need:
http://blog.darkmere.gen.nz/2014/08/updating-my-personal-email-setup/
alpine doesn't have any real problem with my INBOXs being in imap and my
older email being in local files.
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