On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 22:36, HvR wrote: > i gave up trying to use evolution with IMAP it just wont work right, it > is slow and will not allow me to read email offline. instead i now use > offlineimap http://gopher.quux.org:70/devel/offlineimap its a dream come > true, try it you will like it.
Second the motion. It has some quirks, (and so does Evo when reading a local Maildir spool instead of a remote folder) but offlineimap works really well. Syncing your mail corpus down to the local drive makes Evolution really really usable when you're on airplanes (the built in online/offline functionality is pretty unsteady at the moment. Discovering 1 hour out over the Pacific that to your disgust that Evo has screwed up and won't let you access an IMAP folder "offline" only happens once before you find an alternate way of doing things). There's a Debian package for offlineimap (actually, it's native deb); I've written an ebuild script if anyone using Gentoo needs one. There are other strategies; but this works for [Remote]IMAP to [Local]Maildir syncing, AfC -- Andrew Frederick Cowie Operational Dynamics Consulting Pty Ltd Australia +61 2 9977 6866 North America +1 646 270 5376 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
