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Re: [Rant] The Endless Search for a Mail Client That Doesn't Suck



Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> writes:

> Brian Nelson <pyro@debian.org> writes:
>
>> Despite the latency, offlineimap seemed to work OK from Brazil, so I
>> decided to make gnus switch to using a local Maildir folder.
>
> Did you ever try using Gnus' agent support?

Yeah, that's what I meant by "rudimentary synchronization support."


> In general, Gnus expects to control everything in its mail backends,
> so it's not surprising that it doesn't really sync with other maildir
> programs.  nnmaildir tries (which is probably why it is so slow) but I
> don't think it's the highest on the list of priorities.

It tries about as hard as Microsoft tries to make a secure operating
system...

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You win again, gravity!



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