Jim March wrote:
> Guys,
>
> Having all my GMail data backed up at home is a no-go. I need access
> to this stuff while on the road. I never know when I'm going to have
> to prove a given election official is a lying sack of
> something-or-other. Doing so next week doesn't cut it, period.
>
> I need an EMail client that will suck down my GMail data in one big
> overnight gulp, that I can take with me on the lappy. It's that
> simple.
>
> Evolution seems to be able to deal with bigger data volumes than
> Thunderbird. I don't know yet if it'll pause every "x" messages
> downloaded....guess I'll have to try it and find out.
>
> Jim
In that case, I'd create a qmail-toaster in a VM guest that runs on your
notebook. Configure QMT w/ fetchmail to get your mail from Gmail, and
you're good to go. Just configure whatever IMAP client to use the server
running as a VM on your notebook. I expect it'd be breezy. :)
--
-Eric 'shubes'
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