Oh, and I've also seen it pause every 700 (or was it 900?) messages when downloading. Again: NO. Hell no. Jim On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 10:28 PM, Jim March <1.jim.march@gmail.com> wrote: > 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