Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 16/01/2019 21.23, Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
The laptop is used on places where there is no internet or very limited, where I can not connect to the imap server back at home.
Some years back, we used to spend our summer holidays on a remote Greek island, no wifi, sketchy mobile connection. I managed quite well by switching the laptop to "offline" mode before we left, keeping copies of mails locally, then only getting the daily refresh (which could take a while). (3 imap accounts, from one server).
Yes. I did that in the past. But syncing my desktop dovecot-imap server to my laptop Thunderbird for offline use takes hours and dozens, if not hundreds, of megabytes. Wait, is is more than 12 gigabytes, just took a look.
Hardly a lot these days? Especially not if you do it regularly.
My current system is much faster. And Thunderbird would say that it had synced everything, and then I would try to read something and the contents would be missing. The next post would be complete, but some were missing. It was not reliable.
If your desire is to use Thunderbird with offline IMAP accounts, that's what I think you ought to pursue, not some work-around (that you are also having doubts about?) -- Per Jessen, Zürich (4.8°C) http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - dedicated server rental in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org