On 12/16/16, Philip Hands <[email protected]> wrote: > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <[email protected]> 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
i remember you mentioning it a few years ago, so yes, i installed it in preparation, a few days ago. only did cyrus last night so haven't got round to configuring it > 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) yeah i decided to go with the web-based front-end, it seems sane and like prayer-webmail-imap-client doesn't depend on php... >> 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. goooood > 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, yehhh the whole reason i started using gmail was because i'd had HDDs die, i had several gig of maildirs, not enough space: when i started with SSDs the capacity was just far too small. now it's up to sane amounts. > but I know I've got more mail than you're talking about, and searches > return useful results in sub-second mostly. faantastic. yeah i can't remember what the dependency was for the indexing but i've seen it used before and it's pretty damn good. > % find ./Maildir -type f | wc -l > 559007 > % du -hs Maildir > 12G Maildir frickin mad, innit? :) l. _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
