Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!MIX!Blackbird From: billy@MIX.COM Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: POP3 vs. IMAP (Was: Re: Obnoxious noises in Apple Mail - how to silence?) Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 23:36:20 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: <1lkuvlk.we7paplh2d4N%befr@eaglesoft.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix5.panix.com X-Trace: reader2.panix.com 1398900980 15491 166.84.1.5 (30 Apr 2014 23:36:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 23:36:20 +0000 (UTC) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:59064 Tim McNamara writes, quoting me: > > My quota is currently set at 4GB. I'm an extremely active email user, > > and I'm currently into about 25% of it. I believe Convergence's limit > > (MTA Apple uses, and me, too) is 10GB. > > This is one of the limitations of IMAP and for people who get large > amounts of files via e-mail it can be a problem. "The cloud" in general > presents this issue (which is one of the ways "the cloud" intends to be > profitable: "you have filled your allocation of storage space. Would > you like to buy more for only $xx.xx a year?" And if not, you may kiss > goodbye to your data if you don't have a local backup (although watch > out for iCloud, it will delete your data off of your hard drive if you > decide not to live the Apple Way, as I found out the hard way- iCloud > doesn't store a backup of your data, it stores your data and your apps > get the data from there, not from your local storage). I'm not using iCloud. I was leery of it before reading your message, and now I'll definitely avoid it. My server uses RAID storage, and it's backed up daily, and then I do my own daily backups, too. One can never have too many backups, heh. If I come close to my disk quota, I'll be notified. I could increase it, but what usually happens is I just archive some mail. If I really need something later, I can import it back into mail. Quotas here are to prevent any one person from taking down the entire server. But, they're hardly the only defense in place for that. Billy Y.. -- sub #'9+1 ,r0 ; convert ascii byte add #9.+1 ,r0 ; to an integer bcc 20$ ; not a number