Honetly gmail has some advantages in this as a central collection
point then useing its imap to connect your email client
Best of both of these I think ?
On 4/9/09, 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.
>
>
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