Re: [Evolution] Have I pushed Evolution beyond where it is designed to go?

[Steve Litt <slitt troubleshooters com>]

Mike said on Fri, 04 Nov 2022 13:23:37 +0000

[snip apologies.

> Until seven days ago, and for thirty years prior to
> that, I was a user of Microsoft Office Outlook. (That's the client on
> the desktop, not the online service.) I had thirty years of business
> and personal correspondence in it. A lot of it in many, many folders
> and nested folders.) It is what kept me on Windows on this last PC
> when everything else I had was running Debian Linux. 

[snip explanation of no new emails]

I have 20 years and probably more email messages than you spoke of. I
don't think any email client on earth is built to hold that volume of
email.

But the Dovecot IMAP server is, and handles it with ease and grace. My
email client is simply a window into my IMAP server (plus of course a
way to compose and send). It's been working this way, without a hitch,
since 2012.

An added bonus of using Dovecot is my email archives are no longer tied
to a specific email client. When I got angry at Claws-Mail a few months
ago, I quickly and easily switched to Evolution, with no data transfer
or conversion. When it looked like the mailing list I rely on would
vanish, I went back to Claws-Mail, no hassle. If and when the mailing
list gets resolved, I'll switch back to Evolution, no hassle.

An email client might be a good place to store four figures of emails,
but beyond that, in my opinion, a local Dovecot server is the way to go.

SteveT

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