Re: To gmail or not to gmail (was Re: Fwd: selecting old machines for firewall/router use)

[Peter Tynan <happy@sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Sun, 20 Feb 2011, Ron Johnson wrote:

> Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:02:48 -0600
> From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: To gmail or not to gmail (was Re: Fwd: selecting old machines for
>     firewall/router use)
> Resent-Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 04:03:05 +0000 (UTC)
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
> On 02/20/2011 09:42 PM, Heddle Weaver wrote:
> > Got to get away from gmail. No list reply feature.
>
> Get away from the web interface.  Install Icedove/Evolution/Mutt and use 
> Google's IMAPs interface.
I use Alpine but the important thing when using imap with gmail is to 
limit the size of the folder, I've something like 15,000+ messages tagged 
Debian in gmail and opening that lot up as folder using imap a) takes 
forever b) is enough to crash alpine on my shell account. Google labs have 
a feature that allows you to limit the size of an imap folder (I have it 
set to 2,000).
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