-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2010-03-29 18:16, James Knott wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
I want to be able to read some of my email, downloaded to my desktop machine, on my laptop, while off-line.
Set up an IMAP mail server and then use fetchmail to get the mail via POP from your provider. Or use something like GMail, which provides IMAP support.
Yes, but the qestion is how to set an imap server locally that serves from /home/USER/Mail the local mail in mbox format.
The alternative would be to push the email back there. I'll probably do that.
Gmail is not an alternative. It is very slow with very large boxes, and my internet connection (at home) is not that fast.
Is there something that can be used from procmail to push email to a local imap server?
Select an IMAP server that supports mbox (actually, in this situation mbox or maildir for IMAP does not really matter that much, and for Cyrus IMAP is completely irrelevant). The real key here is to distinguish between the "shared" server mail store and the "local" client view of that server mail store. (I have been stung when the IMAP server and and an early version of Evolution used same directory, things got very messy :-) ). Exact requirements for setting up the "local" client will likely vary according to local network settings and the client of choices capabilities. Configure mail to deliver to server mail store structure, and modify postfix, fetchmail and procmail files accordingly. Moving the current client mail store into the server store should be fairly trivial via the client. - -- ============================================================================== I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. Bjarne Stroustrup ============================================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkuxvlMACgkQasN0sSnLmgLXcgCePM6rsuW9IlzV0Wb6Z+i/BGhr 1e4AoPpr9JH/GKTMLSD39RqoyMA9lYsG =qj9+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org