From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KInBQ-0004nS-Fc for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:15:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 008D3E0719; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:13:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com (out4.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7B96E0719 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:13:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E67313A54D; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:13:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:13:09 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: CoE68LcVea93BKisIaGcDw48IFJ3C965OT+SE39kS8WT 1216138388 Received: from [10.161.112.69] (unknown [92.117.112.69]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EEEAE27413 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:13:07 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <487CCC8A.2080804@f_philipp.fastmail.net> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:12:58 +0200 From: Florian Philipp User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080619) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mail on multiple laptops References: <20080715130534.GA32331@ackbar.home> <83db86a516a5c01c0a9f86f149cbb2be.squirrel@www.lockie.ca> <20080715080022.314655bc@lappy.evolone.org> <20080715154316.GA5670@ackbar.home> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig7693F39A5EC872B5D8160A65" X-Archives-Salt: 935c7c86-1637-4dea-83bb-0ee96778ad79 X-Archives-Hash: badaed5cbe0792cab99fa67a2eabaec8 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig7693F39A5EC872B5D8160A65 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Grant Edwards schrieb: > On 2008-07-15, Michael Pobega wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 08:00:22AM -0700, Michael Higgins wrote: >>> On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:11:08 -0400 (EDT) >>> "James" wrote: >>> >>>> On Tue, July 15, 2008 9:05 am, Michael Pobega wrote: >>>>> I've always had just one laptop so I've been a POP user for years >>>>> now, but I'm finally buying a second laptop for travels (Asus Eee >>>>> PC) and I was wondering what gentoo-user would recommend as a good >>>>> way to keep the mail synced on both of my machines. >> Can I use procmail with IMAP or is that not possible? >=20 > That depends. My ISP allows me to run my mail through procmail > on the IMAP server. Gmail doesn't allow that, so you'd have to > set up a cron job to read mail from the inbox, run it through > procmail, and then store it back into folders on the IMAP server. >=20 >> And how do I configure Mutt to use download/sync IMAP? >=20 > Mutt isn't really intended to "download/sync IMAP" (I presume > you're referring to offline usage). Mutt is intended to be > used online -- to be connected to an IMAP server while you're > using it. >=20 > The whole point of IMAP is that you don't download all your > mail. You leave it on the server. I've read about MUAs who > are supposed to maintain a local mirror of all of the mail and > sync it periodically with the server, but I've never met > anybody who actually uses IMAP that way. >=20 Take a look on net-mail/offlineimap. I used it for some time for=20 offline-reading while taking a train but I found mail-readers with=20 proper support for downloading mails automatically (a folder-specific=20 option on Thunderbird, Evolution and Claws, for example) more convenient = than running another app in the background. --------------enig7693F39A5EC872B5D8160A65 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkh8zIsACgkQqs4uOUlOuU/NPgCePQoA60Q4JE4GM70NNZSaZPUQ 2pMAnirgba6Ooubgbj6s2ZDqXv2UbEks =bRPn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig7693F39A5EC872B5D8160A65-- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list