Are you just assuming that thunderbird won't handle it?  I've seem 
thunderbird handle mailboxes with 15 to 25 gig in them.  From my 
experiance it seemed to have more to do with the IMAP server than 
thunderbird as to how much mail it can handle.

Brian Cluff

On 09/19/2010 09:17 PM, 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
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