This bothers me too. I'd rather use Fastmail instead since I suffered from this problem. Or just change the Gmail UI to English. This made me feel Gmail is not as good as it suppose to be.
在 2017年05月16日 16:14, Yubin Ruan 写道:
> On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 09:33:46AM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
>> On 13May2017 17:32, Yubin Ruan <ablacktsh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I am wondering whether it is possible to tell mutt to prefetch mails folder
>>> by
>>> folder so that I can read mails more quickly without waiting for the
>>> "Fetching
>>> mails..." every time.
>>>
>>> I have set up mutt's cache, so it helps a little, but it is still slow
>>> because I
>>> have to fetch the mails before mutt can cache them.
>>>
>>> I know there is something like `fetchmail', but, setting up it is tricky,
>>> especially with a IMAP server (or, do you have good references?)
>> The other common solution for IMAP mail accounts is offlineimap, which will
>> mirror IMAP accounts to local storage.
>>
>> Because mutt is single threaded, all "prefetch" arrangements tend to store
>> the mail locally. This is several advantages:
>>
>> - you don't need to configure mutt to access a remote mailbox
>>
>> - if you're offline all your mail is still there (as of the last update)
>>
>> - access is _very_ fast, because it is local file access
>>
>> - if you run a local mail system, you can reply to email even when offline;
>> it will queue locally on your machine until there is network access.
>> I find this great for train trips. This also means you don't need mutt to
>> know SMTP settings; just deliver locally via the "sendmail" command.
>>
>> The advantage of offlineimap is that (by default) it mirrors your IMAP
>> account, keeping a local set of mail folders matching upstream. This means:
>>
>> - you can still access you imap account (eg through a phone or other device)
>>
>> - changes you make locally via mutt, such as deletions of moving messages
>> or marking them read etc, are pushed upstream to your IMAP account for
>> you
>>
>> Offlineimap _is_ a little tricky to set up, but once running you can let it
>> look after the mirroring in the background.
> Yes offlineimap _is_ very tricky to setup. It cannot handle non-ascii
> characters
> correctly. I have several folders on the Gamil server whose name is in
> Chinese.
> I setup a `nametrans' in the .offlineimaprc:
>
> nametrans = lambda foldername:
> foldername.decode('imap4-utf-7').encode('utf-8')
>
> it works great in the first download, but will throw some encoding/decoding
> errors
> in the sync afterwards:
>
> 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 8: ordinal not in
> range(128)
>
> I don't know why a software would only support ascii in the 21st century...
>
> --
> Yubin
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