On Monday 29 March 2010 16:42:54 Carlos E. R. wrote:
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:
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Do you have more ideas I could try? O:-)
I don't know this 'offlineimap' package you describe, but the common solution to the problem you describe is to use an IMAP mail provider, and a mail client that supports offline IMAP. This is not the same as the tool you just mentioned! When you check mail after reading mail offline, the read flags, deletions, and other changes are synchronised with those stored on the IMAP server. KMail, Evolution and Thunderbird all support it*. Will * See, I can do non-partisan help too! ;) -- Will Stephenson, KDE Developer, openSUSE Boosters Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org