PICdude <picdude3 <at> narwani.org> writes:

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> I've been running on webmail for the past few years (long, but valid =20
> story), and now I need to download and keep all of it.  Roughly just =20
> under 2GB over 3 email accounts.
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> I used to download to a Linux box, but that's full and I don't have =20
> that machine at hand currently.  So I setup Thunderbird (as it uses =20
> the same maildir format, so I should be able to merge later) using =20
> POP3, but it hangs after some time, and can't continue.  Out of ~7000 =20
> emails in one account, it hangs about half-way.
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> I'm ideally after an email client (for Windows XP), that uses maildir =20
> format, which is either very reliable (and will retry, check for =20
> errors, etc) or better... will allow me to download by specific date =20
> ranges.  This way, I can grab a few months at a time and let it delete =20
> those as it goes along.
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> Or if any of you have any better (simple) ideas?
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> Cheers,
> -Neil.
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other note: I use Evolution for email, when I switched to it from KMail las=
t
year, it downloaded several GB of emails from 7-8 accounts without problems=
,
using POP3.  Of course the problem is likely in your server, or ISP, not th=
e
client :-)

Sergey Dryga



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