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On Sunday 03 May 2009 00:00:13 James wrote: |
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> I must admit that Thunderbird is pretty good about keeping tabs on the |
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> many mailboxes I have and updating me when something new pops up. |
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> From what I've been told, gbuffy is one of the few tools that actually |
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> does what I'm looking for, but as Grant mentioned it won't compile |
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> successfully (at least not using the ebuild in the portage tree). |
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> Any thoughts on how to do this when using IMAP and lots of folders? :) |
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How about this, thinking slightly out the box: |
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Pop your mail to a local maildir, but do not delete mails from the server. Run |
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a local IMAP server with that maildir as it's source and point your mail |
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client at it |
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Getmail is excellent at popping like this, it works in the background and you |
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can use whatever filtering tool you fancy. If you need mails more immediately |
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than within three minutes you really should be using jabber instead :-) With |
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local IMAP you can change mail clients in an instant without mucking about |
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with all that tedious import/export stuff. And every mailbox monitoring tool |
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out there will monitor local maildirs and do it well. |
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With this you get all the benefits of IMAP, albeit in a sort of disconnected |
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fashion, and you only suffer the bandwidth hit with large mails once. Your |
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mails are still on the server, so you can still connect to them with IMAP if |
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you wish. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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