Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <l...@lkcl.net> writes: > after trying for 90 minutes to connect to accounts.google.com last > night, with over twenty refreshes, finally obtaining just the HTML of > a page then having to spend ANOTHER hour just to get the matching > CSS... only to run into HTTP proxy problems and having to clear the > cache and DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN.... > > ... i'm absolutely sick and tired of the fucking fucked internet here, > how it's interfering with my ability to communicate, get source code > and much more. > > so, i'm converting to offline imap, setting up the "prayer webmail" > client, a cyrus imap server, and syncing everything to my laptop now i > have the spare space on the 500GB SSD.
If you can deal with emacs, have a look at notmuch Even if you cannot -- you should probably have a look at notmuch (there's a vim-based thingumy, and there are other front ends too) > the only thing is... well... look at the numbers: > > Folder INBOX [acc: lkcl]: > Copy message UID 143 (98/155030) Remote:INBOX -> Local > Folder INBOX.bak.sent [remote name [Gmail]/Sent Mail] [acc: lkcl]: > Copy message UID 307 (116/55244) Remote:[Gmail]/Sent Mail -> Local > Folder INBOX.bak.flagged [remote name [Gmail]/Starred] [acc: lkcl]: > Copy message UID 508 (161/3185) Remote:[Gmail]/Starred -> Local > Folder INBOX.bak.important [remote name [Gmail]/Important] [acc: lkcl]: > Copy message UID 296 (114/51381) Remote:[Gmail]/Important -> Local > > that's nearly 10 GIGABYTES of mail over a ten year period (i created > the gmail account in 2006 when i was running out of space on my laptop > to hold all the email i had in mutt Maildirs). > > 55 *thousand* messages in the "sent mail" folder. a hundred and fifty > five thousand in the inbox. > > after hacking offlineimap so that it would only use HTTPS proxy for > connecting to accounts.google.com but would connect direct to > imap.gmail.com (using a fixed IP address because the china government > MODIFIES the DNS entries to point to the wrong locations...).... > > ... i was able to initiate the download / sync process. connectivity > is so fucking slow it's about one message every... two to five > seconds. at this rate it's going to take TWO HUNDRED hours to sync > the entire mailbox. that's ten DAYS for god's sake. > > we may actually have to go stay in a hotel in hong kong (where they > have a 100 mbytes / sec internet connection) just so i can sync all > the email. If you point notmuch at that it'll say something like: 523,567 mails, that's not much mail... and you'll be able to do similar searchy things to what you probably got used to with google. I tend to shunt my inbox into an archive directory so that I can use dumb imap on my phone and not need to fill the phone with 110k of mails, but I know I've got more mail than you're talking about, and searches return useful results in sub-second mostly. % find ./Maildir -type f | wc -l 559007 % du -hs Maildir 12G Maildir Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/ http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg, GERMANY
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