Re: Eudora to Thunderbird

Rune Stromsness wrote:
> Larry M. Jones wrote:
>> Problem I have with the "central" model is not just privacy, but
>> space. I currently have somewhere in the vicinity of 350MB of
>> emails. Now, if I had a week with nothing to do (they call that
>> death, but I'll fantasize here), I could get it down to 200MB which
>> CalMail could handle; as long as I wasn't away for two weeks and
>> didn't deal with my spam in which case I'd go over the limit and
>> that's ignoring all the attachments I have (I mean the file kind and
>> not the personal kind).
>>
>> That's approximately 15,000 emails in my in and out boxes for the
>> period of 1/1/06-today! That's a lot of going through and evaluating
>> just to deal with them and they only represent 58MB of "stuff."
>> Having them on CalMail would be convenient but the size limitations
>> (not to mention the limitations on my time to go through and jettison
>> emails - which I do try to do during the holidays) is too much to fit
>> into my schedule.
>
> Note that for $48/year you can increase your CalMail quota to 1 GB:
> http://ist.berkeley.edu/services/tam/infrastructure.html
>
> I've been that way for about a year now and it definitely makes CalMail
> much more usable given the volume of mail that I deal with. And the
> $48/year is definitely worth it compared to the time I'd spend trying to
> stay within the normal quota.

I believe there are also plans to increase the baseline quota still
further (to 1GB or beyond) now that the low-cost storage is in place.
(But I don't think the timeline has been published).

-- 
Tom Holub (tom_at_LS.Berkeley.EDU, 510-642-9069)
Director of Computing, College of Letters & Science
249 Campbell Hall
<http://LS.berkeley.edu/lscr/>

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