On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 07:47 -0500, Gerhard Fiedler wrote:

> I think that you probably can solve this with a different setup. 
> 
> I also use Gmail for archiving the piclist messages. But I don't use
> IMAP to access them; I use POP. This means that my email client (40tude
> Dialog) only sees the new messages (and the ones I haven't yet deleted
> locally). I have set the client to automatically delete older messages,
> so my local pool of messages never grows too big. 
> 
> If I want to see older messages, I can go online. 

FWIW, I have a server at home running a getmail script that collects new
messages from all my email addresses (gmail being one of them, my
piclist email address being another). 

That machine has an IMAP server (dovecot), so no matter where I am and
what machine I use all my email folders are available (I use an ssh
tunnel to get to my server, much more secure then an exposed IMAP
service). Plus, backing up my email becomes very easy (it's just one
directory on the server).

The benefit of course is I don't rely on anything other service to store
my email, it's all on my home machine. Another benefit is when I'm at
home accessing my email folders is WAY faster then an online service.
Obviously when my internet link goes down I loose access, but
fortunately that's been pretty rare.

TTYL

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