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Thirteen years of thunderbirding - downloading all imap for local keeping, and with numerous migrations between servers - has not lost me a single email. In fac
by interfixus 9y ago
Thirteen years of thunderbirding - downloading all imap for local keeping, and with numerous migrations between servers - has not lost me a single email. In fact, I have all mail correspondance since the mid nineties - around a hundred thousand mails - neatly archived in Thunderbird folders.
For what it's worth.
- walterbell 9y agoCan Thunderbird do full-text search, or do you use an external program to index the folders?
- interfixus 9y agoIt can. It's clunky, but it can.
- rcarmo 9y agoI have Thunderbird installed on an ODROID-U2 board solely for searching my email archives via VNC when I'm not at home. It works very well.
- RJIb8RBYxzAMX9u 9y agoNot parent, but yes. TB can do both an index-accelerated search, or a full-scan search. Alternatively, since everything's downloaded locally as mboxes / maildirs, use grep / ag / ripgrep, etc.
- tambourine_man 9y agoSame here, only with many many clients, including Thunderbird. Oh, and POP
- interfixus 9y agoOh, and POP, yes, in them olden days of yore.
- tmalsburg2 9y agoIf you have >100K emails, how do you know that nothing is missing?
- devopsproject 9y agoIt always says 100% complete when it runs /s
- interfixus 9y agoI have kept count.
- smacktoward 9y agoMe too. There is one caveat, though: I've found TB's UI starts to struggle when dealing with folders with a large number of messages, particularly on Linux. It's not uncommon for the UI to freeze up entirely when I switch the view from one folder to another; usually this just means having to wait a second or two for TB to become responsive again, so it's not the end of the world, but it is annoying.
- interfixus 9y agoYes, feet are dragging from around 10.000 items in a folder. A mild annoyance at worst.
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