------- Start of forwarded message ------- Subject: Re: [Evolution] Synchronising laptop and desktop evolutions From: "Tony Sequeira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 10:11:25 +0000 (GMT) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 10:00:48 +0000, Ross Burton wrote > > Hi, > > I sync my mail between my desktop and my laptop easily and simply, and > have never lost mail yet. > > I run courier-imap on both machines as an IMAP server. Any IMAP server > would do but it has to use Maildir format instead of mbox format for the > storage. This is so that each message is a single file instead of the > entire folder being a single file. Evolution is configured to read mail > from localhost via IMAP, and I use fetchmail to get mail and drop it > into the IMAP store. I then use unison to sync the two machines. > > The end result is that I can add, move and delete messages on both > machines and when I sync them, there are no conflicts. This is entirely > because messages are individual files. > > I'm tired, if this isn't making any sense, just mail me again... :) > > Ross Ross, Perfect sense, thank you. This is more or less what I am aiming at, except that I would like contacts, calendar and tasks to be synchronised too, and I'm not sure that that is possible with IMAP. Still sounds good, thanks. Now to find some way of converting from mbox to maildir! Much appreciated. -- Tony ------- End of forwarded message ------- -- Tony _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
