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From: garoth@gmail.com (Andrei Thorp)
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:14:50 -0400
Subject: [sup-talk] problems with Maildir and IMAP offline
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Excerpts from Tim Gray's message of Tue Jul 14 11:00:34 -0400 2009:
> On Tue 14, Jul'09 at 10:02 AM -0400, Andrei Thorp wrote:
> > Put this in a hook and it's automatic. That's the beauty of the
> > hook/multiple binary design.
> 
> Honestly, if it's that easy, shouldn't it be configured like that out of the 
> box?

People perhaps don't want this. It's slower, and a lot of folks probably
do no syncing back since all they use is sup anyway.

> > I'm not entirely sure why you want this. If you're worried about
> > failures, do they really happen? If you want to see the log, aren't you
> > already piping it? If you want notifications, you could hook them up to
> > happen in your sup hook (the one I described before) rather trivially
> > via notify-send.
> 
> For use with other mail clients for one.

Understood. Makes sense in your use case. I don't really understand why
you'd want to use pine/mutt when you've already got sup though ;)
-- 
Andrei Thorp, Developer: Xandros Corp. (http://www.xandros.com)