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

[John Sullivan <john@wjsullivan.net>]

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.


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