[opensuse] Gazillion mails from Gmail/imap/thunderbird
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Hi list, - I've got 3G+ of mail on my Gmail account. I pop all mail from there to my SuSE11.1 Thunderbird. Works fine, but takes A LOT of disk space. I would make a lot more sense to use gmail IMAP for my mail. Last time I tried to set it up, TB and SuSE11.0 (not 11.1) froze completely. Has anyone any experience, is it al all adviseable - to use imap for such numbers of mails? FWIW: I receive email into my mailserver directly. From there it is imediately forwarded (dot forward) to my gmail account. Here it is indexed and spam cleaned. I now have a (politically questionably...) cyberspace indexed repo of all my mails. I then pop them back to my SuSE11.1 Best regards, Verner -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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Verner Kjærsgaard wrote:
Hi list,
- I've got 3G+ of mail on my Gmail account. I pop all mail from there to my SuSE11.1 Thunderbird. Works fine, but takes A LOT of disk space. I would make a lot more sense to use gmail IMAP for my mail. Last time I tried to set it up, TB and SuSE11.0 (not 11.1) froze completely.
Has anyone any experience, is it al all adviseable - to use imap for such numbers of mails?
IMAP on Gmail works for me. -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, 2009-03-27 at 08:05 +0100, Verner Kjærsgaard wrote:
Hi list,
- I've got 3G+ of mail on my Gmail account. I pop all mail from there to my SuSE11.1 Thunderbird. Works fine, but takes A LOT of disk space. I would make a lot more sense to use gmail IMAP for my mail. Last time I tried to set it up, TB and SuSE11.0 (not 11.1) froze completely.
Has anyone any experience, is it al all adviseable - to use imap for such numbers of mails?
If you use imap to access gmail normally and daily, it works ok. However, if you try to open the "[Gmail]/All Mail folder", that will attempt to download the headers of the thousands of emails there. Another problem that might happen is that pop3 and imap are not in synch. I use imap daily, from fetchmail. If I atempt once to use pop3, it will try to download the hundreds or thousands of email since the last time I used it. The trick is to go to the imap web access, and in settings, specify the date from which I want to download messages (not the exact config settings, I'm not looking at it now).
FWIW: I receive email into my mailserver directly. From there it is imediately forwarded (dot forward) to my gmail account. Here it is indexed and spam cleaned. I now have a (politically questionably...) cyberspace indexed repo of all my mails. I then pop them back to my SuSE11.1
Rmember that the machine scan all your mail, in order to taylor the publicity shown on the webmail to you. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAknMtvoACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UoSACfRG6DFFcHqglewaNHYAAb3Eud 96UAn0tUDhPs66eu2aBPzq5StLz5vey3 =c8lt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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Carlos E. R.
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James Knott
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Verner Kjærsgaard