Thunderbird works fine for me to handle several GB of emails (the mailbox archives that it generates are plain text and standard so there's no need to export th

Thunderbird works fine for me to handle several GB of emails (the mailbox archives that it generates are plain text and standard so there's no need to export them). For the command line there are also tools like `getmail`[0], with the added benefit that they work with any email provider. [0] http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/ http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/