On 2018-08-22 11:37, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 08/21/2018 08:24 AM, Anton Aylward wrote:
In reality, Thunderbird at run time is **HUGE** since it has, even though I use IMAP rather than download messages, all the index files.
You have to disable keep a copy on this machine in server settings. (that default effectively defeats IMAP benefits)
No, not really. For example, Alpine does not store local copies of imap folders, not even the indexes. But each time you visit an imap folder it downloads the full index again (I think it can keep track of the last three in ram). What Thunderbird does is store a copy of the index and the visited emails on disk. Makes some things faster and use less network, perhaps. But it is not an imap requirement. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.3 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)