From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: ezyang@MIT.EDU (Edward Z. Yang)
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:38:13 -0400
Subject: [sup-talk] New to Sup and some imap sync questions
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Excerpts from William Morgan's message of Wed Apr 29 14:09:16 -0400 2009:
> Recently I've been thinking about the possibility of storing one's
> mbox/Maildir in git, syncing it between machines (Maildir would probably
> work best for this, as mbox will generate spurious conflicts when
> deleting+adding), and maintaining the Ferret index locally on each
> machine. If we add a notion of an outbound message queue to Sup (i.e.
> each machine knows whether it has the ability to send mail or not), and
> also synchronize that and the drafts and sent folders between machines,
> you could use Sup for completely offline, distributed email. Crazy?

I was under the impression that the interesting stuff (e.g. tags) was
stored in the index, so you would have to sync that too?

Cheers,
Edward