Re: [gentoo-user] any gentoo mutt users?

[James]

Alan,

Thanks for the response. :)

I've thought about doing something similar to this, but it's a last
resort. I end up using mutt on various different workstations and it'd
be nice to run everything "locally". Obviously a solution where I'm
fetching mail on every machine where I'm using mutt doesn't scale very
well.

It's certainly an alternative, however, if I can't find anything else
that works.

-j

On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 03 May 2009 00:00:13 James wrote:
>> I must admit that Thunderbird is pretty good about keeping tabs on the
>> many mailboxes I have and updating me when something new pops up.
>>
>> From what I've been told, gbuffy is one of the few tools that actually
>> does what I'm looking for, but as Grant mentioned it won't compile
>> successfully (at least not using the ebuild in the portage tree).
>>
>> Any thoughts on how to do this when using IMAP and lots of folders? :)
>
> How about this, thinking slightly out the box:
>
> Pop your mail to a local maildir, but do not delete mails from the server. Run
> a local IMAP server with that maildir as it's source and point your mail
> client at it
>
> Getmail is excellent at popping like this, it works in the background and you
> can use whatever filtering tool you fancy. If you need mails more immediately
> than within three minutes you really should be using jabber instead :-) With
> local IMAP you can change mail clients in an instant without mucking about
> with all that tedious import/export stuff. And every mailbox monitoring tool
> out there will monitor local maildirs and do it well.
>
> With this you get all the benefits of IMAP, albeit in a sort of disconnected
> fashion, and you only suffer the bandwidth hit with large mails once. Your
> mails are still on the server, so you can still connect to them with IMAP if
> you wish.
>
> --
> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
>