Subject: [sup-talk] IMAP questions (n00b) :)

From: [email-masked] (Filip Stokkeland)
Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 12:38:47 +0200

Hi! I just discovered and started testing Sup. And it looks great!

I tried browsing through some of the mailing list archives, and I
found postings saying Sup does not sync back to IMAP(S). So I take it
then, that when I mark mail as read or as spam, nothing happens on the
IMAP server, but only in the local Sup index?

And another thing. I have my main work email today sorted on the
server, using Sieve, so I get new email sorted into 40 different IMAP
folders. In Sup, can I get it to automatically fetch from all
subscribed IMAP folders?

Or maybe I should rather fetch all this email into my own local server
using fetchmail or something and then either put it all in one big
inbox or multiple mboxes locally and then add this as source?

Best regards
-- 
Filip

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From: [email-masked] (William Morgan)
Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 06:12:31 -0700

> Hi! I just discovered and started testing Sup. And it looks great!

Thanks!

> IMAP server, but only in the local Sup index?

That's correct. I'm not opposed to pushing those flags back to the IMAP
server in principle, at least in batch mode (there's a tool that does
that now for mbox, and I'm working on Maildir), but writing that code
pretty low on my personal priority queue at the moment.

> folders. In Sup, can I get it to automatically fetch from all

There's not a good automatic way of doing this. If you can generate the
list of folders, then you can run sup-add on each one.

> inbox or multiple mboxes locally and then add this as source?

Current best practice for IMAP is to sync it locally with a program like
offlineimap. That also speeds things up, e.g. when you open a thread
with 100 messages, Sup wants to download them all at once, and IMAP is
much slower than Maildir for that.
-- 
William <wmorgan-sup at masanjin.net>