Re: [Evolution] Message Filter vs. Search Folders - Open Discussion

[Reid Thompson <reid thompson ateb com>]

On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 12:35:29PM -0400, Philippe LeCavalier wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 07:03 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>
>     On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 11:25 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
>     > On Tue, 2010-11-02 at 21:16 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>     > > On Tue, 2010-11-02 at 10:52 -0400, Reid Thompson wrote:
>     > > > I tend to store no mail on hosted accounts and use fetchmail +
>     > > > procmail to download and delete from server hosts.
>     > >
>     > > Each to his own. I store almost no mail locally, that way I can get to
>     > > it from wherever I am (from my phone, from a friend's house, from a
>     > > public terminal while traveling, from both office and home.) Keeping
>     > > your mail in your computer is so 20th Century :-)
>     > >
>     > > (I already know the counterarguments, I'm just making the point that
>     > > people use mail in different ways).
>     > >
>     > > poc
>     >
>     > Or you could also take the geek's way out of keeping your mail on your
>     > IMAP server but also having a full local copy using (for example)
>     > offlineimap =).
>
>     Of course, but Reid said he downloads his mail *and deletes it from the
>     server*, which is why I responded.
>
> He misread. I use IMAP and grab a local copy in case my host goes down or I'm
> not connected so I can still reference my mails. The mail loads quite in the
> Inbox but it's after that where things slow down when Evo hits 'filtering new
> mail'. It's not that bad. I'm just wondering if there would be a more efficient
> way.
>
> Phil

I didn't misread.  My first comment was

"i think offlineimap is used by a lot of folks for this"

because, based on what i'd read on the mailing lists, it seemed to fit
what the op wanted to do.  Download his imap mail and put it into various
folders while leaving the email on the server just like an imap client
would do and then as changes are made locally, propagate those changes
back to the imap server(i'll leave it to those interested to determine
whether that synopsis of offlineimap is correct or not)

My second comment referenced my personal preference, offering a
alternate solution providing keeping email on the server was not
requirement.

"I tend to store no mail on hosted accounts and use fetchmail +
procmail to download and delete from server hosts."

For that matter, you can use fetchmail and procmail to get your mail and
leave it on the server, as long as you 'implement' some ultimate means
of managing the email on the server, because to my knowledge there's no
automated way to propagate back local changes via this combination.

reid