Need a mail app for LARGE volumes of mail...

[Eric Shubert]

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. :)

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-Eric 'shubes'