Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service
On Fri 07 Dec 2018 at 10:08:35 (+0000), Joe wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 23:05:24 -0500 Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 27 Nov 2018 08:59:25 +0000 Ben Oliver <ben@bfoliver.com> wrote:
> > > On 18-11-26 21:12:19, Celejar wrote:
> > > >On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 09:37:21 -0500 Mark Neidorff <mark@neidorff.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >...
> > > >
> > > >> Now, I don't like the webmail interfaces and the limited storage
> > > >> for old
> > > >
> > > >Limited storage? Who - big or small player - offers unlimited
> > > >storage for old emails?
> > > >
> > >
> > > My suggestion [0] (a 'small' player) does!
> > >
> > > [0] https://www.migadu.com/
> >
> > Very interesting, thanks. I notice that they say "Storage is not your
> > problem, it is ours." [0] We trust you will not abuse it." What does
> > "abuse" mean in this context? That it shouldn't be used for file
> > storage?
> >
> > [0] https://www.migadu.com/en/benefits.html#anchor_storage
>
> Some people keep a) all their old email, which is a perfectly
> reasonable thing to do, and b) leave all the attachments in, which is
> also perfectly reasonable to do on your own storage.
>
> I used to deal with a client who did this and who received a *lot* of
> attachments. I had to fix his broken [Exchange] mailbox a couple of
> times, and it was *enormous*. Exchange mailboxes seem to take an amount
> of time to fix that is an exponential function of their size, they are
> basically MS Access databases.
OTOH they may feel that uploading all your backups etc is unreasonable,
perhaps including workarounds like mailing them to yourself.
Cheers,
David.
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