And I've seen it blow up in spectacular fashion every time a particular user crosses the 2gig mark. NO - THANK - YOU! Jim On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Brian Cluff wrote: > 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 >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss