Re: [Evolution] How to keep multiple Evolution desktops in sync

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam opengroupware us>]

On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 11:00 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 11:10 +0100, Patryk Benderz wrote:
> > [cut]
> > > You could forward them to an IMAP provider (such as Gmail or Fastmail)
> > > and work from there.
> > yea, but on the other hand, this would violate my corporate policies,
> > thus this solution is not for me :(
> In that case, the only solution is to run your own server inside the
> corporate network.
> *However*, on rereading the thread I realize I may have given you false
> hope. Even with your own mail server, you cannot guarantee consistency
> between multiple concurrent Evo instances. This is because IMAP doesn't
> define the result of two or more clients accessing the same mailstore at
> the same time. I don't mean you'll lose mail, but things that depend on
> message state (such as filters) may behave strangely. You might be able
> to get away with configuring all instances not to check for new mail
> automatically, i.e. you do it yourself when sitting in front of them,
> but even then you'd need to think about Evo not updating state info on
> the mailstore without being forced to.
> I use Evo at the office, at home and when travelling (as now). I take
> care only to have one instance running at a time.

I've operated multiple simultaneous IMAP clients for years with Cyrus
IMAPd and never noticed any issues.  The only thing you can't use are
client-side filters, which seems kind of like a "Duh!", but with Cyrus'
SIEVE support nobody will mess them.

Cyrus IMAPd is packaged by all major distributions.