Anton Aylward wrote:
Linda Walsh said the following on 08/26/2011 06:51 PM:
OR...if you want, you can just keep everything in imap& use 'fetchmail', to pull down your ISP mail, and put it in your 'inbox'... (or deliver it to a sort filter so it can put it into any of your imap folders)...
That's certainly a good idea. Its even worth having that on a separate machine, a mail server, along with Postfix and SpamAssassin. Many advantages, not the least of which, relevant to this thread, is that the mail repository is there, safe, and you can play with different installations, different mail readers on your primary machine.
--- My desktop machine is a windows machine. It's serviced by the linux machine that does all of the above as well as DNS, proxy, samba, backups, profile server. All my user data is on linux. the Win7 machine has a smaller but faster disk cache for programs & scratch space. Been running fetchmail on 'the server' (different machine now, original 'repurpose Dual (2cpu)x 1GHz P-III (with a whole 1GB of memory!) workstation, died just shy of 10 years.)...for over 10 years now...'fetchmail', then into presort, which also handles passing it through SA... That way... I can play w/multiple clients...etc. 'Dovecot' (IMAP), is fast and does folder searching/index fast even without the special seive software you can add. -- so all email is prefetched to local 1Gb net. Of course, as of TB3.0, the default in Thunderbird was changed to download all of a user's email into their local *Roaming* profile, which slowed down my adoption along those lines. I'm told the behavior can be turned off...but why they made it they default to download 4GB of IMAP email into a roaming profile, is ... too lame for words... IMAP!=POP... IMAP is a remote file system with remote searching...I never got a confirmation of whether or not they do the same thing with MS-exchange -- (if they work w/it)...i.e. if they download the users entire email cache into their local roaming profile (NOT even the local-static part of the profile, but the ROAMING profile!)... Where it proceeded to be copied back and forth on logout/login, adding about 20-25 minutes on logout, and about 3-5 minutes on loggin (just checks to see that local copy is current).. I'm doing final 'testing' and messing around w/having my /home partition -- were all my Win docs (pics etcs, are) snapshot'ed every night w/LVM. I let the snap go for 24 hours, then copy the diffs off using 'rsync' to a static volume and start again. If you mount them in samba in a snapshot dir labeled by date& time: Ishtar:> ls /home/snapdir @GMT-2011.07.20-13.43.15/ @GMT-2011.08.15-10.02.25/ @GMT-2011.08.25-02.13.58/ @GMT-2011.07.25-16.24.53/ @GMT-2011.08.19-13.45.19/ @GMT-2011.08.26-03.01.27/ @GMT-2011.08.08-03.29.58/ @GMT-2011.08.20-03.45.35/ @GMT-2011.08.27-06.49.47/ @GMT-2011.08.12-22.14.26/ @GMT-2011.08.22-00.46.46/ @GMT-2011.08.14-20.59.12/ @GMT-2011.08.23-18.00.56/ Ishtar:> Then any files which have changed will show up as 'previous versions' on the Windows client - making restoring a screwup much easier than restoring a backup.. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org