Need a mail app for LARGE volumes of mail...

[Alan Dayley]

I don't have an answer to your main question, just questions.  In your
original post you stated:

"And it has to allow streaming it all in continuously.  We're talking
about almost 6gig."

These requirements are not clear to me.

Do you have 6gig total in you archive/local store?  Or you get 6gig
streaming in per day or some other time frame?  Or something else?

Streaming continuously is not possible for a traveling laptop unless
you keep it turned on and connected to the Internet 24/7, which seems
unlikely.  So what do you mean by streaming continuously?

Email clients are intended to provide an interface for a human to read
and mange emails.  It seems to me that such a huge volume of email is
not human readable anyway, especially if you are getting 6gigs per day
or even a fraction of that.  Maybe you need some sort of email server
on your laptop that pulls the emails into a local "real" database,
like MySQL or Postgres and a database application interface into that.
 Depending on what you need to do, of course.

Just as hauling rock with a Mini Cooper does not make sense, handling
that much email with a standard client seems a mismatch to me.

Alan

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:
> My sole computer is a laptop.  I travel a LOT.  Right now I'm five
> days into a week-long trip, writing this from a Motel 6 in Globe of
> all places, for a visit with their elections office tomorrow AM.
>
> That doesn't sound like a good situation for using a server?  What if
> it goes down while I'm out?  I'd be completely hosed...
>
> Jim
>
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Eric Shubert <ejs at shubes.net> wrote:
>> Jim March wrote:
>>>
>>> I've been using GMail through the web interface.  I've just realized
>>> it's dropping data.  It lost something important and I can't have
>>> that.  I'm going to have to suck it all down locally.
>>>
>>> I need a mail client that will handle massive piles.  And it has to
>>> allow streaming it all in continuously.  We're talking about almost
>>> 6gig.  Thunderbird emphatically won't cut it.  Dunno about Evolution
>>> but I suspect not.  I'm on Maverick.  I have enough embedded
>>> graphics/PDFs/etc. to deal with that I need something GUI vs. terminal
>>> interface.
>>>
>>> Any clue what I should try?
>>>
>>> Jim
>>
>> I think you need a personal mail *server*. I recommend
>> http://qmailtoaster.com/. QMT is robust, very reliable, has good community
>> support, and is being continually improved.
>>
>> I've been running QMT since '06. The first one started on a
>> PII-266MH/512MB/80GB machine, which I expect would still suffice for your
>> needs, although more CPU wouldn't hurt. I have seen 6-7G per account on one
>> of these, using IMAP for access (dovecot on the server side) with absolutely
>> no problems (MS Outlook has a 2G limit, not surprisingly, but I doubt that
>> applies to you). You can configure fetchmail with it to grab your gmail, or
>> whatever other accounts. Then you can comfortably use whichever client you
>> like, and more than one at the same time. Since the mail's on the server,
>> when you change something with one client, all clients see the change. You
>> can even use a blackberry (or whatever mobile device w/ internet access) to
>> access your mail. Webmail (squirrelmail, with horde coming soon) is included
>> as well.
>>
>> Let me know if you'd like any help with QMT. I've been active in that
>> community since I started using it.
>>
>> If anyone would like to build a QMT, that can easily be done at an
>> InstallFest. It would take just a couple hours. Please send an email to
>> installfest at plug.phoenix.az.us if you're interested.
>>
>> --
>> -Eric 'shubes'
>>
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