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. Do you have 6gig total in you archive/local store? Or you get 6gig streaming in per day or some other time frame? Or something else? Streaming continuously is not possible for a traveling laptop unless you keep it turned on and connected to the Internet 24/7, which seems unlikely. So what do you mean by streaming continuously? Email clients are intended to provide an interface for a human to read and mange emails. It seems to me that such a huge volume of email is not human readable anyway, especially if you are getting 6gigs per day or even a fraction of that. Maybe you need some sort of email server on your laptop that pulls the emails into a local "real" database, like MySQL or Postgres and a database application interface into that. Depending on what you need to do, of course. Just as hauling rock with a Mini Cooper does not make sense, handling that much email with a standard client seems a mismatch to me. Alan On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Jim March <1.jim.march@gmail.com> wrote: > My sole computer is a laptop.  I travel a LOT.  Right now I'm five > days into a week-long trip, writing this from a Motel 6 in Globe of > all places, for a visit with their elections office tomorrow AM. > > That doesn't sound like a good situation for using a server?  What if > it goes down while I'm out?  I'd be completely hosed... > > Jim > > On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Eric Shubert wrote: >> 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 >> >> I think you need a personal mail *server*. I recommend >> http://qmailtoaster.com/. QMT is robust, very reliable, has good community >> support, and is being continually improved. >> >> I've been running QMT since '06. The first one started on a >> PII-266MH/512MB/80GB machine, which I expect would still suffice for your >> needs, although more CPU wouldn't hurt. I have seen 6-7G per account on one >> of these, using IMAP for access (dovecot on the server side) with absolutely >> no problems (MS Outlook has a 2G limit, not surprisingly, but I doubt that >> applies to you). You can configure fetchmail with it to grab your gmail, or >> whatever other accounts. Then you can comfortably use whichever client you >> like, and more than one at the same time. Since the mail's on the server, >> when you change something with one client, all clients see the change. You >> can even use a blackberry (or whatever mobile device w/ internet access) to >> access your mail. Webmail (squirrelmail, with horde coming soon) is included >> as well. >> >> Let me know if you'd like any help with QMT. I've been active in that >> community since I started using it. >> >> If anyone would like to build a QMT, that can easily be done at an >> InstallFest. It would take just a couple hours. Please send an email to >> installfest@plug.phoenix.az.us if you're interested. >> >> -- >> -Eric 'shubes' >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> 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