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From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
To: <ding@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: isync plus dovecot?
Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 08:50:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k3myrqny.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874ne2uudj.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (Eric Abrahamsen's message of "Fri, 17 May 2013 12:02:00 +0800")

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:


[...]

> dovecot "be in charge of the Maildir directory" really means. And if the
> other Eric is able to use the native Gnus agent and it works fine
> offline, why is everyone jumping through all these hoops?

One of the reasons for using offlineimap (& co.) is to provide much
quicker access to your emails.  Given the non-threaded nature of Emacs,
every time you try to access emails to/from an external (IMAP) server,
Emacs will hang.  For those that have a single Emacs instance running,
this can be quite annoying.  Having emails stored locally via
offlineimap or mbsync gives you direct and fast access.

My solution to this is to have 2 Emacs instances running always, one for
email and the other for everything else.

-- 
: Eric S Fraga, GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D
: in Emacs 24.3.50.1 + Ma Gnus v0.8 + evil 1.0-dev
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-17  7:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-16  6:30 Eric Abrahamsen
2013-05-16  7:47 ` Rainer M. Krug
2013-05-16 11:28   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-05-17  9:06     ` Rainer M. Krug
2013-06-16 18:52   ` Dave Abrahams
2013-05-16 13:07 ` Dan Christensen
2013-05-17  4:02   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-05-17  7:50     ` Eric S Fraga [this message]
2013-05-17  8:35     ` Dan Christensen
2013-05-17  9:13     ` Rainer M. Krug
2013-05-17  9:17   ` Rainer M. Krug
2013-05-17 20:52     ` Dan Christensen
2013-05-18  1:48       ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-05-18 21:06         ` Erik Colson
2013-05-16 16:02 ` Eric S Fraga
2013-05-20 17:30 ` Drew Raines
2013-05-21  1:35   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-05-22 18:24     ` Drew Raines
2013-05-24  4:36       ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-06-16 18:49 ` Dave Abrahams
2013-06-17  7:18   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-06-18  3:56     ` Dave Abrahams
2013-06-24 14:06   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-06-24 16:39     ` Eric Abrahamsen

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