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

[Mike <mike netwright net>]

Steve is it 27 years and my mail server (mail.netwright.net) sits a meter from my left leg.

I don't use a third party for email. Never have since 1994, when I set up my first mail server on a unit running Slackware Unix. [Believe it or not, rather than running Sendmail, I was using server software from a company -- long gone -- which was called alibaba.com (funny how the name popped up again in the oddest of ways).] And then to mail server software called Merak on a WIndows box before switching Debian 4 or 5 and Surgemail which I am still running. 

That server by my left leg is doing quite a bit, BIND, apache2 web, Intermapper network monitoring as well as the mail server software. [It is running as a Debian VM on Core i3 processor. :-)  Did I mention that I am retired and no longer have big iron?] So it isn't a good depository for my mail.

If you and other are say evolution can't do it, (even though it runs like a champ on a VM I created on my desktop) then I will leave it as a repository for my other mail and move on. However, it has been my experience that there is a potential bias from those who do things differently to say, 'it can't do that' when they really don't know. Clearly it is doing fine on the VM. It was the export to the true desktop and the import on that new desktop that seems to have created the problem.

[Yours were the same complaints I head about Outlook and the size of the mail. So I broke the PST's up and never had a problem, over five separate PC's as the PST's were exportable and backups are great things. so long as there is code that can import the backup.]

The only reason I chose evolution was because it could import the PST files (multiple ones) I kept mail in in Outlook. In Outlook, my current mail was not in the same data file as the archive mail. 

Steve Litt wrote:

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

Steve Litt

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