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

[Eric Cope]

or this...

http://www.gmail-backup.com/download

again, just googled it, can't vouch for quality.

Eric

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Eric Cope <eric.cope at gmail.com> wrote:

> It sounds like a method to download all emails to a database initially,
> then keep up with emails at a normal rate.
> What about something like this -
> http://www.broobles.com/imapsize/imap-backup.php - I just googled it, I
> can't vouch for quality...
>
> Eric
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 8:04 PM, Alan Dayley <adayley at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > 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.
>>
>> Ah.  Yeah.  My bad.
>>
>> OK, I have nearly six gigs in Gmail right now.  There's gotta
>> be...heck, I dunno, 30,000 messages in my inbox alone.  Thousands in
>> "sent".  God ONLY knows what's in the spam trap.
>>
>> :)
>>
>> I'm going to take an empty local EMail client, point it at that
>> beeyatch and say "open up and say aaaahhhh" one evening with the
>> laptop on a fast pipe, and go to bed.
>>
>> When I wake up, I want that stuff held locally.
>>
>> If I have to restart the download every 700 or 900 or whatever
>> messages, it'll take frackin' forever.  I need it to suck that stuff
>> down unattended.  And I'll make sure I have enough local disk space to
>> eat it all.
>>
>> Once it's synced the first time, then it's pretty easy to keep up.
>> It's gonna be that first download that will be a complete and utter
>> PITA.
>>
>> :)
>>
>> Jim
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