Which EMail reader for BIG volumes of mail?

[JD Austin]

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On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 7:39 PM, Charles Jones <
charles.jones at ciscolearning.org> wrote:

>  Eric Shubert wrote:
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> Craig White wrote:
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>  On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 17:20 -0700, Jim March wrote:
>
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>  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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