-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I want to be able to read some of my email, downloaded to my desktop machine, on my laptop, while off-line. The current setup is that the desktop machine donwloads emails from several accounts using fetchmail, processes it with amavis and spamassassin, and delivers it into several folders using procmail. I would like to copy some of those folders to a laptop in order to read them in my free time, while away from home and internet. I have tried "mailsync". The 1st problem with this is that read emails on one machine are not marked read in the other. Thunderbird keeps indexes (foldername.msf) which are not (AFAIK) synced. Or, if using (Al)pine, the marks are kept as some header modification inside the mbox file; but as the msgids are the same on both sides, the changes are not synced. I though of solving this by keeping two folders, one of them for "read" email, and move there each email after being read (a bit of a nuisance, but I can do that). But aparently mailsync doesn't keep good track of this, and replaces the "deleted" emails in the laptop with copies from the main machine. This won't do. Unless I'm doing things wrong (which I might, the documentation is not very complete), I can't use this method. Yesterday I discovered "offlineimap". The description is very promissing: Summary : OfflineIMAP - Powerful IMAP/Maildir synchronization and reader support Description : OfflineIMAP is a tool to simplify your e-mail reading. With OfflineIMAP, you can: * Read the same mailbox from multiple computers, and have your changes (deletions, etc.) be automatically reflected on all computers * Use various mail clients to read a single mail box * Read mail while offline (on a laptop) and have all changes synchronized when you get connected again * Read IMAP mail with mail readers that do not support IMAP * Use SSL (secure connections) to read IMAP mail even if your reader doesn't support SSL * Synchronize your mail using a completely safe and fault-tolerant algorithm. (At least I think it is!) * Customize which mailboxes to synchronize with regular expressions or lists. * Synchronize your mail two to four times faster than with other tools or other mail readers' internal IMAP support. This morning I read the manual (/usr/share/doc/packages/offlineimap/manual.html), which appears to be written for version 4, while the rpm is version 6. It is indeed interesting, but there is a big snag, probably unsurmountable in my case: it does the syncing not against the desktop machine, but against a common imap server that all the computers use, ie, the ISP imap server. This, again, will not do. What I would, then, need, is an imap server in my desktop machine, but one that serves the mail structure under /home/USER/Mail/LotOfmboxFiles as an imap server. Without that I can not use that "offlineimap" thing. Perhaps not even then, it could mess the handling by procmail. Do you have more ideas I could try? O:-) - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" GM (Elessar)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkuwvG4ACgkQU92UU+smfQU2jACePentkXONLHxkB2yicdYi5c00 L1AAnRAb2BGdz81Qn5okYWsBP6GEocJ2 =QlZO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org