Re: Setting up Icedove with mayor providers (was: MTU and Postfix)

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 04 Sep 2011 22:34:09 +0800, lina wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:

>> Before setting up your Gmail account to use it with your e-mail client
>> you should first "clean up" your inbox/folders because you can have
> 
> inbox/folders ?

Yes. If you have all of your messages stored/archived in your inbox 
Icedove will suffer to download/get all that amount of data.

It's better to have sub-folders so you can classify your e-mails and put 
in there a small set of messages.

> I have inbox and different folders ( folders are not in the inbox
> directory).

Hum... are that Gmail default folders (sent/all/trash...) or have you 
manually created them?
 
> clean up?

Yep :-)

Gmail has the strange ability to fill up very quickly and we tend to 
forget to completely remove e-mails that we don't want anymore. It's the 
price we have to pay in this "cloud-based" world: we forget about basic 
maintenance and let the provider to do the "dirty" job.

>> stored there thousand of messages that can take very long to download.
>>
>> Were you using POP3 or IMAP to get your Gmail's e-mails in Icedove?
> 
> IMAP.

Then arrange your inbox and let Ivecove to gather the data. The first 
time will take some time but once it indexes and caches the folder it 
will be quicker.

> P.S  Before I tried the icedove,
> mainly just wanna download thousands of emails from windows live account
> to backup (It's kind of "official" email box I used for years).
> Right now I wonder I maybe do backup in different machine, such as use
> outlook. will try another time.

I guess Outlook will suffer for the same as Icedove (it will be slow).

But if you want to make a backup for a small set of messages, I think 
there are specialized tools to achieve that task (e.g., gmail backup).

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón