Re: Offline mail reader for several lists

[Chad Miller <cmiller@surfsouth.com>]

It might not offer all the functionality you want, but I'd fetchmail from
your upstream, and disconnect.  Send mail into your local queue, and
reconnect later and dequeue (sendmail -q).

Keep your local folders in maildir format (that's possible, right? 
wishlist bug?), and rsync them with some other server, maybe. 

						- chad

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On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 10:35:33PM +0100, Nils Rennebarth wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 03:45:18PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > Try fetchmail.
> I know fetchmail, but can't see how it will help.
> 
> I could maybe (tips how?) use fetchmail to check all folders to which
> procmail delivers mail and forward the new ones home, deleting them on the
> work machine. But at home I may want to delete (most of) the new messages,
> keep a few in the different folders, maybe even administer my folders at
> home, moving a few messages around and then write back the changes to the
> folders to my work machine.
> 
> What I currently plan to do is:
> 
> To get new mail:
> 
> ---- Go online
> - Change the procmail recipe on my work machine to deliver all mail to
>   $HOME/single-folder
>   single folder outside of the usual maildir
> - use rsync, copying $HOME/mail to my home machine
> ---- Go offline
> 
> Now use mutt at home, reading new mail, organizing folders just if I were at
> work. When I finish:
> 
> ---- Go online
> - use rsync, copying $HOME/mail from my home machine back to my work machine
> - Change the procmail recipe back to the original, delivering to folders
>   in $HOME/mail
> - run formail -s procmail < $HOME/single-folder to sort mail that came
>   in while I was offline to the usual folders
> ---- Go offline
> 
> 
> Nils
> 
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