It sounds like a method to download all emails to a database initially, then
keep up with emails at a normal rate.
What about something like this -
http://www.broobles.com/imapsize/imap-backup.php - I just googled it, I
can't vouch for quality...
Eric
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Jim March <
1.jim.march@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 8:04 PM, Alan Dayley <adayley@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Ah. Yeah. My bad.
>
> OK, I have nearly six gigs in Gmail right now. There's gotta
> be...heck, I dunno, 30,000 messages in my inbox alone. Thousands in
> "sent". God ONLY knows what's in the spam trap.
>
> :)
>
> I'm going to take an empty local EMail client, point it at that
> beeyatch and say "open up and say aaaahhhh" one evening with the
> laptop on a fast pipe, and go to bed.
>
> When I wake up, I want that stuff held locally.
>
> If I have to restart the download every 700 or 900 or whatever
> messages, it'll take frackin' forever. I need it to suck that stuff
> down unattended. And I'll make sure I have enough local disk space to
> eat it all.
>
> Once it's synced the first time, then it's pretty easy to keep up.
> It's gonna be that first download that will be a complete and utter
> PITA.
>
> :)
>
> Jim
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