From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/70871 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Pittman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: The new nnimap and agent? Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 12:22:44 +1000 Message-ID: <87mxrj924r.fsf@rimspace.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1284518160 12528 80.91.229.12 (15 Sep 2010 02:36:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 02:36:00 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M19244@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Sep 15 04:35:59 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ovhqp-0005bM-I1 for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 15 Sep 2010 04:35:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Ovhq8-0000WD-59; Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:35:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Ovhq6-0000W3-P0 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:35:14 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Ovhq2-0005X9-CF for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:35:14 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Ovhq1-0000oZ-00 for ; Wed, 15 Sep 2010 04:35:09 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ovhpy-0005OQ-7m for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 15 Sep 2010 04:35:06 +0200 Original-Received: from sdcarl02.strategicdata.com.au ([203.214.67.82]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 15 Sep 2010 04:35:06 +0200 Original-Received: from daniel by sdcarl02.strategicdata.com.au with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 15 Sep 2010 04:35:06 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sdcarl02.strategicdata.com.au User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:DgviTlMFMydHZDErntEGbvjnZgY= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:70871 Archived-At: Richard Riley writes: > Steinar Bang writes: >>>>>>> Steinar Bang : >> >>> Will the nnimap work with agent? Will it be possible to improve the >>> offline capabilities of nnimap? Allow offline refoldering of articles? >>> Are there other missing offline IMAP capabilities? >> >> One more desirable capability: article editing, and allowing it offline, >> which means that the offline imap must be able to save a new version of >> the message and delete and expunge the old version. >> >> What I would use article editing for: rethreading in nnimap folders >> backing mailing lists. > > A possible alternative : You can do all this with a local dovecot and > offlineimap I think. Well, I know as I do ;) ...but not local IMAP group creation, and only using software that has some serious performance problems for large mail stores, and has no upstream. So, um, not exactly the pick of the bunch, although I use it for lack of a better option. Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman ✉ daniel@rimspace.net ☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons