On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 06:12:58PM +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: > Grant Edwards schrieb: >> On 2008-07-15, Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 08:00:22AM -0700, Michael Higgins wrote: >>>> On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:11:08 -0400 (EDT) >>>> "James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Tue, July 15, 2008 9:05 am, Michael Pobega wrote: >>>>>> I've always had just one laptop so I've been a POP user for years >>>>>> now, but I'm finally buying a second laptop for travels (Asus Eee >>>>>> PC) and I was wondering what gentoo-user would recommend as a good >>>>>> way to keep the mail synced on both of my machines. >>> Can I use procmail with IMAP or is that not possible? >> That depends. My ISP allows me to run my mail through procmail >> on the IMAP server. Gmail doesn't allow that, so you'd have to >> set up a cron job to read mail from the inbox, run it through >> procmail, and then store it back into folders on the IMAP server. >>> And how do I configure Mutt to use download/sync IMAP? >> Mutt isn't really intended to "download/sync IMAP" (I presume >> you're referring to offline usage). Mutt is intended to be >> used online -- to be connected to an IMAP server while you're >> using it. >> The whole point of IMAP is that you don't download all your >> mail. You leave it on the server. I've read about MUAs who >> are supposed to maintain a local mirror of all of the mail and >> sync it periodically with the server, but I've never met >> anybody who actually uses IMAP that way. > > Take a look on net-mail/offlineimap. I used it for some time for > offline-reading while taking a train but I found mail-readers with proper > support for downloading mails automatically (a folder-specific option on > Thunderbird, Evolution and Claws, for example) more convenient than running > another app in the background. >
It works really nicely, but for some reason it dies when downloading message number 7088... I don't know what causes this. How can I tell which message is 7088 on Gmail? Perhaps I can just delete it and work around it... http://pastebin.com/m45fb8db4 -- If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they restrict the use of these programs. - Richard Stallman -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
