On Tuesday, November 22, 2011 8:17 AM, "Linda Walsh" <suse@tlinx.org> wrote:
Herbert Graeber wrote:
Automatic
migration is the culprit here. Dropping it and let the user do the migration himself (like he needs to do for migration to other email client as well), would save much time an pain.
------------- Maybe it is too radical for most people, but I've been running imap since the mid-late 90's. I did so for exactly the reason you have above -- having to deal ( or sometimes wanting to try) multiple email clients. Any email client that tries to store stuff in a private store.
Evil.
I ran it on the same machine I ran the email clients -- just to separate the mail storage from the email clients and allow all of them to play together. Since then IMAP has only been improved with indexing and search support.
Maybe the default on suse should be to install an imap server (partial to dovecot here at this time...was on UW-IMAP in past)... and have clients use that locally via loopback. That way -- no need to migrate mail...
Other pieces are more problematic.
+1 I use Dovecot on both my laptop and netbook to provide a simple IMAP server only accessibly locally, and imapsync to sync the local imap server with my email account. It's a very nice setup for the reasons you wrote above. Unfortunately I can't see an easy way to automate this setup - people's local email archives are stored in all sorts of different incompatible email programs to begin with, with kmail/akonadi's setup being one of the most opaque. Tim -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org