Re: [Evolution] evolution slightly misses the boat...

[Ross Burton <r burton 180sw com>]

On 03 May 2001 07:47:34 -0700, Dan Berger wrote:

> > I can recommend running fetchmail via cron, with a local IMAP server.
> > This way procmail has access to every message which comes in, and if Evo
> > suddenly stops working you can just fire up any other email client which
> > supports IMAP (or the native mail store - I use the UoW IMAP server so
> > Pine reads my mail store fine too).
> Sounds reasonable, but I don't have a dedicated connection - and when
> I'm traveling, I'd rather leave my mail on the server so I can access it
> from where I am (rather than having to rely on my machine being up, my
> connection being up, and my dynamic DNS service actually working).

I have a dial-up line at home - the script's first task is "am I
online?".  There are also tools to sync mail stores across multiple
machines - on /. there is a long discussion about this sort of thing. If
you want I'll dig out the URL (it will be easy to find as I started it!)

> And while I'm at it - is it the case that you can't add or modify
> keybindings in the MS-Like (or Emacs Like, or X-Emacs Like) sets?
> Meaning if you want to change the behavior of one key, you need to
> redefine all of them into a custom set?  That's been my experience
> trying to get ctrl-shift-right/left to do the right thing, and it's very
> annoying.

I agree!

Ross
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