Re: Agent & disconnected IMAP: move messages between folders?

[Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org>]

John Sullivan <john@wjsullivan.net> writes:

> Greg Troxel <gdt@work.lexort.com> writes:
>
>> I don't think there is philosophical opposition to disconnected IMAP -
>> it's just hard.  Right now the agent seems to be a read-only cache of
>> the server.  With disconnected IMAP you keep log of operations to play
>> back later.  I don't know whether implementations typically modify the
>> cache or play back the log locally when reading the cache, but I suspect
>> the cache reflects the state with the log operations applied.  All of
>> this seems doable, and seems like a natural extension to the agent.  You
>> might want to look at the Coda filesystem for inspiration of how to deal
>> with things, but Thunderbird might be more useful.  It seems there
>> should be an open-source disconnected-mode IMAP library.  I wonder if
>> it's just easier to use an offline IMAP proxy, and if those really
>> support disconnected mode.
>
> I've been getting around this problem happily for a couple years now by
> having gnus talk to a local IMAP server running right on my laptop
> (courier in my case), and syncing to my upstream IMAP server with the
> program offlineimap. I do that for mail and leafnode for nntp, and life
> is pretty good offline.

Just doing the same for a few days now and it really changed my
life :) Until now, I used nnmaildir backend but I find it, erm,
buggy thus I changed my mind and I am now logging to a local
dovecot IMAP server. Revolutionary !

Xavier