[MlMt] Noises

[Richard I Cook MD]

Thank you... quite helpful. I am trying to get dovecot installed now. 
Even it's 'quick' configuration is complicated so it may take a few days 
to get it going but the website and the .conf files are detailed. I'll 
post when I get it going...
R

On 8 Jul 2014, at 10:06, Brad Knowles wrote:

> On Jul 8, 2014, at 9:48 AM, Fredrik Jonsson <frjo at xdeb.org> wrote:
>
>>> 3. Any advice on what I can do with my 20GB of offline mail messages 
>>> stored by Apple Mail?
>>
>> You can get an e-mail provider that allow you to store that mush or 
>> set up a local IMAP server. I do the later and it works really well 
>> but it is some work to set up and maintain.
>
> One advantage to doing it this way is that you can set up simple 
> standard cron jobs to go in and archive messages from the Internet 
> IMAP server to your local IMAP server, so that you only keep messages 
> below a certain age on the "public" server and everything else is 100% 
> private.
>
>
> If you set up jobs on the local server to copy down all the remote 
> messages as soon as they come in, then you can use your IMAP client to 
> interact exclusively with your local IMAP server, and then that will 
> be much, much faster.  And these jobs to copy down messages from the 
> remote server could potentially operate on other ports, via private 
> VPNs, or tunneled over ssh, so that even if you're in a place where 
> you can't normally access your remote e-mail, you could still get that 
> copied down to your local server.  Once the messages are copied down 
> to the local server, you can purge them from the remote server at your 
> convenience.
>
>> Running dovecot as a local only IMAP server on OS X 
>> <https://xdeb.org/node/1607>
>
> Of course, I haven't actually done this yet, but I've been meaning to 
> do so for a long time.
>
> Maybe this thread will be the impetus I need to make this happen.
>
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