Which EMail reader for BIG volumes of mail?

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 11:54 -0700, Bryan O'Neal wrote:
> Excuse my squirrely logic here, but what is the difference between
> connecting to Goggles imap server and connecting to your own.
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bandwidth, storage limitations, filtering mechanisms, privacy are just a
few that come to mind. The significance of each is probably different
for each person.
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>  If the client
> can not handle the amount of mail on a professionally hosted server why
> could it handle it better connecting to your own server?
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I think I had in mind the differences between POP3 and IMAP when I wrote
this so it was more of the differences between a local POP3 mailstore
which held mail captive to a specific mail application versus an IMAP
server which allowed you to change mail client applications on a whim.

Craig
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Alan
> Dayley
> Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 8:31 PM
> To: Main PLUG discussion list
> Subject: Re: Which EMail reader for BIG volumes of mail?
> 
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> > ----
> > 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.
> 
> I completely agree with Craig.  It's silly to expect any email client to
> handle 2GB of email a day.  If they are getting that, they need an
> infrastructure to handle it.  Get an IMAP server and then they can use
> whatever client they want.
> 
> Alan
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