I moved from running several servers to hosted google.. lovin in! -- JD Austin Twin Geckos Technology Services LLC jd@twingeckos.com 480.288.8195x201 http://www.twingeckos.com Norman Mailer - "Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing." On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 7:39 PM, Charles Jones < charles.jones@ciscolearning.org> wrote: > Eric Shubert wrote: > > Craig White wrote: > > > On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 17:20 -0700, Jim March wrote: > > > When I mean "big", I mean out past 2gig in a matter of a few days. I > have somebody who wants to convert who is likely THE biggest EMail > volume user that anybody's ever seen. And somebody literally famous > enough that if she jumps to Linux, the news will make Digg and Reddit > in a matter of days. > > She also need to deal with multiple accounts. She's on Outlook now. > I'll almost certainly be her them to Ubuntu Intrepid, although Jaunty > in beta is looking SO good right now... > > Anyways. Suggestions welcome. I know for a fact she'll overload > Thunderbird if we try that! Would the latest Evolution work, or > should I be thinking of a text-based reader, or...??? > > > ---- > Evolution looks/feels like Outlook which may provide comfort. I have > used it for many years and I'm comfortable with it and I am on a lot of > mail lists and often get 1000+ e-mails a day. > > I find that less important than the actual e-mail program used is how > e-mail is stored because if you have a LOT of e-mail, local stores of > POP3 account e-mail in mbox can really drag down the performance and > make it hard to move from program to program. > > I know some will think this is overkill but I think that the only way to > go is to run your own IMAP server, use fetchmail or getmail to retrieve > e-mail from various accounts if you have to and use dovecot or > cyrus-imapd to provide IMAP to mail clients. This way, you can use > whatever mail program you want or try them all and from various > computers and your mail is already marked read/replied to/deleted etc. > > Once a serious e-mail user catches on to the value of having your own > IMAP server, they will never give it up. > > Craig > > PS Dovecot and cyrus-imapd use similar but different 'Maildir' format to > store mail (never use mbox). > > > > > I whole heartedly agree. Having your own IMAP server is great. I believe > that's a more important/significant decision than which client to use. > > P.S. I expect Personal Servers to be more and more common in the coming > years. Why wait? Build your own today! > > > I know this probably sounds like a commercial for Google, but you can > easily setup a gmail account to fetch mail from other mailboxes, and then > use the gmail web interface as well as access gmail via IMAP. That way if > there is a 2GB inbox and your IMAP client is choking on it, you can just use > the gmail web interface to go in and deleted stuff, and also take advantage > of gmails excellent spam filtering. > > That being said, my line of thinking is that someone who has never used > linux before, is in no way ready to setup and run their own IMAP server, > spamassasin, etc. Its certainly good to learn those things, but I have seen > hardcore MS users get the "deer in the headlights" look just from seeing a > bash prompt. You don't want to scare her away with a steep learning curve. > Even if you set it all up for her, just the perceived complexity and lack of > understanding of whats running the backend can make it seem daunting to a > newbie. > > If you are prepared to setup everything for her and be her support person > 24/7 and all she knows is "I click this icon and I am supposed to see my > email", then I wish you luck and success. > > > --------------------------------------------------- > 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 >