On 2018-08-24 08:49, Per Jessen wrote:
James Knott wrote:
On 08/23/2018 02:31 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
or TB will store all messages, attachments, everything, on your local computer instead of simply leaving them on the server and storing the index locally. What a ridiculous default. It would surely have been better to say "keep the last 30 days worth" for offline use.
That would depend on the computer. For example, I want all messages to be stored on my desktop computer, but not on my notebook or Android devices.
Going off-topic - it's still a ridiculous _default_ setting. I wouldn't want my mail kept anywhere but on the imap server. My archive accounts I certainly would not want anywhere but on the archive server.
It depends. If going over Internet with a slow connection, I might prefer to cache it all. At least if Thunderbird is efficient and doesn't re-download it all on a whim. If the machine has disk space, why not? What I want to reduce, however, is the memory footprint of Thunderbird. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.3 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)