Re: mail synchronisation between laptop and desktop
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 11:33:52AM +0100, Sam Clegg wrote:
>On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 09:39:00AM -0400, mike dentifrice wrote:
>>
>> Seems to be easy enough, indeed. Till now, I've been reluctant to use
>> Maildir because of disk-space issues (Maildir is a great inode eater!),
>> and because my whole mail system (mutt, postfix, procmail) is configured
>> for mbox (and I have a lot of these folders).
>
>Its worth it.
>
>offlineimap works so well its worth switching to Maildirs.
>
>You don't need to change to Maildir on the server (which is where
>you run postfix and procmail I assume). But if you do change on
>the server then .procmailrc changes are trivial.
Seconded - offlineimap is wonderful. And it has the added bonus that
it's _not_ written in C or C++ so it doesn't use the horrible
libc-client code that many C/C++ mail-handling programs so.
I have changed to Maildir on the server too, which means that all 3 of
my machines (workstation, laptop, server) see a consistent view of
mail, even down to using the same .muttrc for all three. This is
_really_ useful.
The only down-side of using Maildir is grepping through mailboxes to
find information is much more awkward. Perhaps it's time to run
glimpse or similar...
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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
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