Re: [Evolution] help with IMAP



On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 16:49, Andrew Cowie wrote:
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 22:36, HvR wrote:
i gave up trying to use evolution with IMAP it just wont work right, it
is slow and will not allow me to read email offline. instead i now use
offlineimap http://gopher.quux.org:70/devel/offlineimap its a dream come
true, try it you will like it.

Second the motion. It has some quirks, (and so does Evo when reading a
local Maildir spool instead of a remote folder) but offlineimap works
really well.

Syncing your mail corpus down to the local drive makes Evolution really
really usable when you're on airplanes (the built in online/offline
functionality is pretty unsteady at the moment. Discovering 1 hour out
over the Pacific that to your disgust that Evo has screwed up and won't
let you access an IMAP folder "offline" only happens once before you
find an alternate way of doing things).

Count one more happy user of offlineimap with Evo ! I'll never again
show up at a meeting and find out that this fscking important document
is in a message whose folder was supposed to be synchronized but somehow
was not. I'm hooked : I now use it to synchronized accounts all over the
place, and it always 'just works'. Even online, having everything cached
locally makes access so much faster when the IMAP server is several
hundred miliseconds away across a wet string, and that's a nice bonus
considering that there is still true synchronization happening in the
background. Offlineimap keeping local maildir and IMAP server in sync is
the yardstick I'm going to measure other solutions against.

There is just one quirk that nags me from time to time (once every few
days) : under conditions that I have not yet precisely identified but
that might have something to do with Evo starting up while offlineimap
is working the local maildirs, Evo stops refreshing the unread message
count in the folders tree. But apart from that, nothing but good stuff.


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