Never had an issue… And I can access it from any computer - and - I use several - all powered on at the same time - not to mention via remote access over RDP…
I occasionally have to go in and clean out emails with attachments - which eat up space - as already discussed - if you attach a 5 mb image file - every reply and forward - creates another instance of that 5 mb attachment - which is downright dishonest - as I’m sure they only store one copy of it - but they count every instance of it towards your storage quota…
I don’t see the imperative to have a local copy of everything… How many copies?
Way back since the late 1990’s - I used to keep a PST of my inbox from my ISP email address…
We use gmail as our second email address.
Do not like their app… usually use it from thunderbird.
Our first choice email is Telstra bigpond. No idea what their storage limit is … I put it away in local folders. It does have webmail … I can use it from any device.
I guess my setup originated from the days when one ran sendmail and served mail locally. I just never really adapted to web mail fully.
I am always amazed how many email people keep and never do a clean up, had several clients who had to take urgent action as they stopped getting mail the box was full !
I have 6 emails in my box this morning i will be down to one by lunch time plus 2 folders with around 10 in each for our next 2 holidays , thats all guess I just dont do anything important now
My mail folder is a symlink. RN it points to a directory in the same partition, but I have also had it point to another one that had more space and was easier to backup (with rsync) because I could assure that nothing on it was changing during a backup. The same symlink can be used more than one distro to point to the email store on a partition somewhere any of them can access. Fine as long as you don’t try to access it from more than one distro at a time.
Be careful with that. If 2 distros have different versions of the mailer, they may format the email store differently.
I would not like to try and sort out the mess.
Check that your mailers are all compatable.