Re: [Evolution] Offline caching misunderstanding

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 12:58, HvR wrote:
> see below...
>
> On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 17:50, Not Zed wrote:
> > On Sat, 2002-11-16 at 12:38, HvR wrote:
> > > this is exactly my problem, i hope/wish/need to have syncing mean that
> > > all messages with attachments are downloaded to my system before i
> > > disconnect, without this feature evolution becomes quite unusable for
> > > me, so pls, pretty pls??
> >
> > This can't be done *yet*.  Although if you care to, you could patch
> > evolution-mail to do something like this, as if you'd like to know how.
> >
> > But currently, all you can do is say 'for these folders, download all
> > unread mail', you can select the folders in the settings dialogue.
>
> but it only downloads the headers not the msg itself

No, it downloads the messages.

> > Also, any mails you've read with evolution will get downloaded as part
> > of the reading process so should also be available.
>
> yes but NOT if the email contains an attachment! (it will be downloaded
> when you read it but somehow evo wont let me see the msg when in offline
> mode, however the file is there in the imap directory... is this a
> bug???

Could be a bug yeah.

> For now i have written a filter that copies an email containing an
> attachment to a local folder. That way any email with an attachment is
> in my local folder so available offline.
> Downside of this is that i now have to delete these big babies in two
> place: IMAP and local folder.
>
>
> > > On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 02:36, Jean-Marc V. Liotier wrote:
> > > > I got 1.2 from the Debian Sid package. I'm impressed how Evolution is
> > > > getting better all the time. So here is a big thank you to all the
> > > > developpers !
> > > >
> > > > That said, back to the normal whining user mode...
> > > >
> > > > I use IMAP. When I switch to offline mode, I get the neat new
> > > > "Synchronizing" dialog and everything looks fine. Then, I select a
> > > > message (read or unread, it makes no difference) and I get the following
> > > > alert box :
> > > >
> > > > Error while 'Retrieving message 3963':
> > > > You must be online to complete this operation
> > > >
> > > > Back to online mode and everything works fine. I don't know if this is a
> > > > bug or not : in fact I don't really understand what synchronization is
> > > > supposed to do. I assumed it was local caching of a folder's content,
> > > > but apparently it is not quite that. I looked in the 1.2 documentation
> > > > on the Ximian site and found no explanation of the expected behavior.
> > > > Could anyone enlighten me ?
> > >
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