From: garoth@gmail.com (Andrei Thorp)
Subject: [sup-talk] problems with Maildir and IMAP offline
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:39:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1247585761-sup-5167@Longbow> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090714152806.GC393@d228.scdc1.swarthmore.edu>
Excerpts from Tim Gray's message of Tue Jul 14 11:28:06 -0400 2009:
> On Tue 14, Jul'09 at 11:07 AM -0400, Ben Walton wrote:
> > It's something I'd like too (not to play nice with other clients, but
> > because it's "just better").
>
> This sound like a good thing. In my experience, 'just better' usually
> equals 'playing nice', since 'playing nice' usually equals following the
> standards. That's how Maildirs are supposed to work - if everybody followed
> the spec, we'd be set.
I'd just like to mention that the reason we tend not to sync back in
general isn't because we hate standards and want people to get hurt :)
It's roughly because of the extra features in sup:
- It keeps a database so it can search for stuff quickly
- It implements its own tagging regardless of source (unlike stuff like
mutt that just rely on "physical" folders)
- It merges sources
So while it's possible to do some merging back, it's sometimes awkward
because sup's tags do not have to map 1:1 to IMAP folders or anything
else. It's otherwise also a bit awkward because we might have mail from
many sources in one place, so writing back isn't as simple as just
editing files. You also have to _not_ edit files.
Anyway, that all said, it's clearly possible and would be very nice to
have.
--
Andrei Thorp, Developer: Xandros Corp. (http://www.xandros.com)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-14 15:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-13 21:20 Luis Cañas Díaz
2009-07-14 13:24 ` Andrei Thorp
[not found] ` <20090714134544.GD90157@d228.scdc1.swarthmore.edu>
2009-07-14 14:02 ` Andrei Thorp
2009-07-14 15:00 ` Tim Gray
2009-07-14 15:07 ` Ben Walton
2009-07-14 15:28 ` Tim Gray
2009-07-14 15:39 ` Andrei Thorp [this message]
2009-07-14 15:59 ` Tim Gray
2009-07-14 15:14 ` Andrei Thorp
2009-07-14 15:45 ` Tim Gray
2009-07-14 16:21 ` Israel Herraiz
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