Re: MUAs that compare with Outlook (your chance to show how much better Linux is than MS!!)

[Eric E Moore <e.e.moore@shef.ac.uk>]

>>>>> "Brian" == Brian May <bam@debian.org> writes:

Brian> - Gnus doesn't support storing mail (on local computer as
Brian> opposed to IMAP) in any shared location. Instead, it will pull
Brian> all mail out of the Maildir or mbox file, and insert it into
Brian> its own private spool. This makes caching the remote mail with
Brian> mailsync or isync impossible (I guess you could setup a local
Brian> IMAP server, but this seems really crazy).

Not sure what you want here.  You can set it up with a backend that
uses a standard unix mbox format to keep the mail, which then you
could feed to mailsync or something...

  -Eric