Because we were talking about someone who had never used linux before, 
so doubtful that they could host, install, and admin their own IMAP server.

Bryan O'Neal wrote:
> Excuse my squirrely logic here, but what is the difference between
> connecting to Goggles imap server and connecting to your own. If the client
> can not handle the amount of mail on a professionally hosted server why
> could it handle it better connecting to your own server?  
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Alan
> Dayley
> Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 8:31 PM
> To: Main PLUG discussion list
> Subject: Re: Which EMail reader for BIG volumes of mail?
>
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Craig White <craigwhite@azapple.com> wrote:
>   
>> ----
>> 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.
>>     
>
> I completely agree with Craig.  It's silly to expect any email client to
> handle 2GB of email a day.  If they are getting that, they need an
> infrastructure to handle it.  Get an IMAP server and then they can use
> whatever client they want.
>
> Alan
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