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

[Jim March]

Well gmail-backup looked like a good idea but it depends on python 2.5
- I have 2.6, it refuses to execute the shell script on that basis.

Sigh.

Jim

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Eric Cope <eric.cope at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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