Re: isync vs mailsync
>>>>> "Colin" == Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org> writes:
Colin> Brian May <bam@debian.org> writes:
>> In my search for a "perfect" offline IMAP client(TM) I have
>> looked at isync vs mailsync.
Colin> What's wrong with Gnus? Perhaps with the Agent? I admit
Colin> I've never tried disconnected IMAP with it, but I see
Colin> people talking about it on the ding lists.
Gnus seems to be slow and inefficient. In online mode, it doesn't seem
to cache anything for any reason, so just reading a message you read
seconds ago requires downloading it again. It also means that messages
need to be downloaded again for offline reading.
However, the real killer, was that I could not get offline reading to
work with IMAP, only NNTP. Perhaps I was doing something wrong, not
sure here. At the time I took the easy way out and concluded that IMAP
wasn't supported <grin>.
Despite these problems, Gnus is the only program I have seen that will
highlight replies to my mail, something I find very valuable in large
mailing lists like this one.
Another alternative that looked good last time I tried was Mozilla, as
it seems to have very good off-line mail support. However, it was
buggy and often refused to enter mail groups for no good reason, so I
gave up on that. Eventually I will have to try it again.
--
Brian May <bam@debian.org>
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