[Tfug] Need a mail app for LARGE volumes of mail...

[Jim March]

Well then Thunderbird is out.

This is election season, I can't be messing around with building an
IMAP server right now.

Sigh.

Jim

On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 11:32 PM, Glen Pfeiffer <glen at thepfeiffers.net> wrote:
> On 19 Sep 2010, Jim March wrote:
>> On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Paul Scott <waterhorse at ultrasw.com> wrote:
>> > Thunderbird can use maildir with IMAP.
>>
>> How?  Because I *like* Thunderbird.
>>
>> Will this also eliminate the "restart download every 700 or so
>> messages" problem?
>
> I believe you would use a different program to download your
> mail, like fetchmail. You would then configure dovecot to use
> that directory for its mail store and then setup Thunderbird to
> access the dovecot server.
>
> Too bad Thunderbird can't read directly from a local maildir. :-(
>
> --
> Glen
>
>
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