[svlug] archiving IMAP mail???

[Don Marti]

begin Warren Turkal quotation of Tue, May 06, 2008 at 07:08:03PM -0700:
> On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Akkana Peck <akkana at shallowsky.com> wrote:
> >  It can, but it's not a great IMAP client, and reading mail with
> >  IMAP is a lot slower than local files. It usually works better
> >  to grab messages from the IMAP server some other way, then use mutt
> >  on the local files.
> 
> Just out of curiosity, have you tried caching the email headers when
> using mutt as an imap client? When I tried it, it worked really well.

Still way slower than running offlineimap then
pointing Mutt at a local Maildir.

  http://software.complete.org/software/projects/show/offlineimap

If you run offlineimap before and after your Mutt
session, the mail on the IMAP server will be up to
date so that you can also work on the same mail using
your mobile device, webmail, some other IMAP client,
or whatever.

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