Re: [sup-talk] IMAP, labels, editors

From: Damien Leone <damien.leone@fensalir.fr>
To: sup-talk <sup-talk@rubyforge.org>
Subject: Re: [sup-talk] IMAP, labels, editors
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 21:26:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1290889043-sup-6470@mailer> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikQbNR_uTW8Gt8VExq9Bt2YwB=u3k4edcvL8wb_@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

Excerpts from Lurkos's message of sam. nov. 27 19:17:46 +0100 2010:
> I've read in the latest History file that IMAP support is deprecated.
> Are you going to drop it? I mainly use IMAP to read my e-mail boxes,
> because I need to deal with them from different workstations (say:
> home, office, laptop, etc.).
> For this reason the local Maildir approach won't work for me.

You can use offlineimap to fetch e-mails from your IMAP server and
save them as Maildir that are then added in sup. By setting your hooks
properly you can automatically call offlineimap before polling (see
the wiki).

> Are the labels stored in a local database or also stored as flags via IMAP?
> Of course the second choice would be much more beneficial for people
> using e-mail from different locations.
> What happens if a new message is added to the mail spool from another
> source? Does *sup-sync* preserve labels already associated?

Everything is stored locally, sup does not modify the Maildir sources
but there is a maildir-sync branch that allows you to keep
synchronized in both directions between your IMAP server and your sup
database. This is still under development though.

> Is it possible to _delete_ a message via IMAP (say: mark as \Deleted
> and then Expunge, using IMAP terminology)? According to your FAQ, it
> seems that only mbox spools support a real delete process.

Same as above.

> About message composition, do you have any recommended editor, given
> the fact that I never used a lot Vi nor Emacs?

I use emacs with post-mode.

Cheers,

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Damien Leone <damien.leone@fensalir.fr>

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