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

[Joseph Sinclair]

By the way, this post http://opennomad.com/content/gmail-backup-imap-server describes one way to set up a home system to pull all of the GMail content into a local IMAP server with all open-source tools.

Joseph Sinclair wrote:
> This sounds more like a situation where you just don't trust GMail to keep your older emails, but you still really need cloud access to the current/recent email.
> 
> What you might find most useful is a hybrid setup.
> 
> Use a local store (fetchmail-into-mbox, thunderbird on POP, IMAP/Backup, etc...) on a system at home that you don't mind running as a server and have that download everything, read-only, from GMail and keep it forever in a small/light IMAP server like qmail-toaster as Eric Shubert suggests.
> Set the gmail to archive and remove (might need to enable a lab for this) anything over some reasonable age (perhaps 1 year?) so it serves as a cloud-based cache for "recent" email without all the old stuff.
> Use a caching IMAP client on the laptop to access gmail while on the road (gmail with offline enabled, Thunderbird in IMAP mode with local storage enabled, etc...).
> Have another client at home to read from your archive server for older messages that won't be in your GMail any more.
> 
> There are a lot of variations on that structure.  The primary idea being to split the huge volume of old emails from the smaller "current" volume (for whatever timeframe you consider "current").
> 
> Just a thought.
> 
> Joseph Sinclair
> 
> Jim March wrote:
>> 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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