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

[Stephen]

Also note, with Gmail you can have it archive anything pop-ed, so it
literally would keep a copy of everything and still be available in
case your "server" tanked.

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Eric Shubert <ejs at shubes.net> wrote:
> 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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