Re: [Evolution] Comments on 0.4.1

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj helixcode com>]

There is no spec for this.

Jeff

On 07 Sep 2000, Ross Burton wrote:
> Date: 07 Sep 2000 11:38:19 +0000
> To: Evolution Mailing List <evolution helixcode com>
> From: Ross Burton <r burton 180sw com>
> Sender: evolution-admin helixcode com
> Subject: Re: [Evolution] Comments on 0.4.1
>
>
> > > * Offline IMAP support please?  something like Outlook Express
> > > 5 would be very nice.
> >
> > How does this work?
>
> Here we go: an IMAP server has multiple folders. A server has folders.
> Each folder has a syncronization option, either "Don't", "Get headers
> only" or "get all messages".  When mail is collected, this option
> declares what happens for each folder: nothing, just the headers are
> collected or all of the mails are downloaded.  Also, there is an
> "offline" mode which will never connect to the server for when the
> network connection is not present.  You can also perform operations on
> an offline IMAP account in OE5 which are batched until the connection is
> restored (this is actually part of the spec, AFAIK).  OE5 is one of the
> few good M$ programs (apart from the scripting thing which everyone
> should turn off)
>
> Ross Burton
>
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