On 22/01/2019 11.37, Liam Proven wrote:
On 1/21/19 8:31 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 21/01/2019 15.49, Liam Proven wrote:
(Not "unfortunately" because I don't want to agree with Carlos! "Unfortunately" because I like Thunderbird -- it's my favourite MUA.)
LOL! :-))
;-)
In your case, it could be a single local imap server.
Well, it could, but still there are issues.
[1] I run it at home. That means I need to open ports through the firewall, which isn't mine. It means I need to leave a machine on all day, which I usually don't. And there's the distinct possibility of power outages etc. And I have to maintain an internet-facing server, which I guess I have most of the skills to do but don't want to be continually monitoring for exploits, etc.
Partly this can be solved by not exposing imap to internet, but ssh only. Then connect a tunnel to it to use imap inside. No, I have not done that, I have similar objections to yours. Thus, I download both to my laptop and my desktop and try to keep them synced.
So I use Google.
For syncing in one direction only from gmail to your machine, "imapsync" would work, although I haven't tested in that situation.
I will look into that.
Gmail is, er, special.
It is. This is both good and bad.
Gmail does not use folders. It would put everything on the same folder on sync.
I don't know about imapsync but to a conventional IMAP client, its tags appear as folders. And you can nest tags, just to 2 levels but that is all I need.
Ah! Ok. Yes, you are right, I see them in Thunderbird. I forgot. I only have two tags, an old experiment.
<https://imapsync.lamiral.info/FAQ.d/FAQ.Gmail.txt>
Wow. See this one:
«Q. How many days does it take to transfer X GB?
R. Basically it takes X days to transfer X GB per account. Gmail has usage limits per day and use throttlers when they are overtaken»
That sounds about right. :-(
A pain with MUAs, no issue with Google clients or the web.
Right. Of course, it may be possible, with a good sync client, to finish the sync eventually, and from then on, only sync the changed stuff "faster". Would that work with google? I don't know. imapsync on local network only is slow...
My case is totally different. I get new mail from gmail and others using fetchmail, then process is and store under dovecot.
I use Gmail to consolidate all my other accounts. Currently, it collects from my 28-year-old CIX account, my 23-year-old Hotmail and AOL accounts, and my I-can't-remember-but-old Yahoo account.
Oh!
I feel unable to handle mail on my tablet for long. A family post or two, with the gmail app.
It's fine for reading. Not good for replying.
Exactly. Now, here comes "dictation". Ie, speak my letter. It works fairly well if I do in Spanish, but sometimes horribly in English. Sometimes, probably due to my accent, it gets out of sync and what it writes is absurd, to say the least. It may write a correct paragraph with a huge single word mistake in the middle that changes the meaning of the paragraph. Being one word, I don't notice it... till after sending. However... Google dictation is way ahead of Linux dictation. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.0 x86_64 at Telcontar)