On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 11:00 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 11:10 +0100, Patryk Benderz wrote: > > [cut] > > > You could forward them to an IMAP provider (such as Gmail or Fastmail) > > > and work from there. > > yea, but on the other hand, this would violate my corporate policies, > > thus this solution is not for me :( > In that case, the only solution is to run your own server inside the > corporate network. > *However*, on rereading the thread I realize I may have given you false > hope. Even with your own mail server, you cannot guarantee consistency > between multiple concurrent Evo instances. This is because IMAP doesn't > define the result of two or more clients accessing the same mailstore at > the same time. I don't mean you'll lose mail, but things that depend on > message state (such as filters) may behave strangely. You might be able > to get away with configuring all instances not to check for new mail > automatically, i.e. you do it yourself when sitting in front of them, > but even then you'd need to think about Evo not updating state info on > the mailstore without being forced to. > I use Evo at the office, at home and when travelling (as now). I take > care only to have one instance running at a time.
I've operated multiple simultaneous IMAP clients for years with Cyrus IMAPd and never noticed any issues. The only thing you can't use are client-side filters, which seems kind of like a "Duh!", but with Cyrus' SIEVE support nobody will mess them. Cyrus IMAPd is packaged by all major distributions. _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
