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!
--
-Eric 'shubes'
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