Re: e-mail sync options?

2010-09-02 Thread Bill McGonigle
On 08/30/2010 11:14 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: I've tried Thunderbird, and it doesn't look like a viable option-- partly because I can't stand the lousy built-in text-editor (though I guess there are extensions that'll kluge-in support for spawning an external editor), and because it

e-mail sync options?

2010-08-30 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
This is going to start-off silly-sounding, but bear with me: My wife called and told me, a few months back, `Wikipedia is down!'. It took me a minute to figure out that she actually did mean that *Wikipedia* was down--not her laptop's WiFi, not our WAP, not our residential-grade DSL (*again*...),

Re: e-mail sync options?

2010-08-30 Thread Ben Eisenbraun
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 11:14:59AM -0400, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: _What I want_: I'd like to be able to offline have access to my entire e-mail store from all devices--be able to search through and read messages, write messages and queue them for sending, move messages between folders,

Re: e-mail sync options?

2010-08-30 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Eisenbraun b...@klatsch.org writes: On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 11:14:59AM -0400, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: _What I want_: I'd like to be able to offline have access to my entire e-mail store from all devices--be able to search through and read messages, write messages and queue them

Re: e-mail sync options?

2010-08-30 Thread Bruce Dawson
On 08/30/2010 11:14 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: I could just write a suite of code to implement this myself, but maybe someone can save me the effort by pointing me to a canned solution :) A many-to-many sync is extremely resource intensive. And the optimizations for doing it with fewer

Re: e-mail sync options?

2010-08-30 Thread Ben Eisenbraun
Hi Joshua, Thanks, Ben Ha! My brain totally skipped the last paragraph of your first email in which you mention OfflineIMAP as a possibility and wonder about the topology question. Sorry. That wasn't very helpful. --any thoughts on the `sync topology' question, since I've got 4+ machines

Re: e-mail sync options?

2010-08-30 Thread Dan Jenkins
On 8/30/2010 2:08 PM, Bruce Dawson wrote: On 08/30/2010 11:14 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: I could just write a suite of code to implement this myself, but maybe someone can save me the effort by pointing me to a canned solution :) A many-to-many sync is extremely resource intensive.

Re: e-mail sync options?

2010-08-30 Thread Jeffry Smith
I've been using fetchmail with the -k option (keep on server) for years. jeff ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/