on Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 07:14:25PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev (anton@lml.bas.bg) wrote:
> Hi!
>
> The Debian mailing lists produce big trafic of email. If I want to
> follow them regularly I have to use a slow and expensive connection to
> Internet (low quality phone line or mobile phone). I tried to use
> offlineimap but this was only to realise that I can afford it. May be
> other people have symilar problems (mobile computers, etc.).
>
> Certainly I am not interested in every message. May be there is some
> way to control which messages will be copied from the server to the
> computer I use? Is the following scenario possible somehow: First, I
> connect to Internet in order to get automaticaly the first messages
> from each thread. Then read the received messages offline. Next by
> some "subscription" mechanism I connect again and receive all messages
> from threads I have selected.
>
> I can install software both on my computer and on the server I use.
> It would be nice however to find a solution that will not require to
> install anything on the server.
Recommendations:
- Usenet. Browse topics and pull selected bodies.
- Procmail forward. Retrieve the list to another system, and set up a
procmail (or other mail filtering) ruleset which selects messages to
forward by author, subject, or keywords, possibly using scoring
rules.
- Remote mail: Sounds like you tried offlineimap and didn't like
it, but it or an ssh session to the system your mail lives on might
work.
- RSS feed. Posibly customized. Generate a feed with a digest of
subject, author, and a brief abstract of (possibly: selected)
messages. Review this and pull bodies from a mail=>web interface of
some sort. Probably requires some engineering work on your part,
but could be really useful.
Peace.
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