[Tfug] Need a mail app for LARGE volumes of mail...

[Glen Pfeiffer]

On 19 Sep 2010, Jim March wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Paul Scott <waterhorse at ultrasw.com> wrote:
> > Thunderbird can use maildir with IMAP.
> 
> How?  Because I *like* Thunderbird.
> 
> Will this also eliminate the "restart download every 700 or so 
> messages" problem? 

I believe you would use a different program to download your 
mail, like fetchmail. You would then configure dovecot to use 
that directory for its mail store and then setup Thunderbird to 
access the dovecot server.

Too bad Thunderbird can't read directly from a local maildir. :-(

-- 
Glen