From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: paul.t.hinze@gmail.com (Paul Hinze)
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:06:07 -0500
Subject: [sup-talk] Gmail and OfflineIMAP
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fedzor <fedzor at gmail.com> on 2008-10-14 at 16:58:
> I love sup. I first started using it ~ 0.3 with Gmail, but had to stop 
> because Gmail was causing sup to crash unexpectedly (it also made it 
> impossible to handle large amounts of email). But like I said, I love sup. 
> I want it back in my life. I'm tired of being a wannabe command line 
> junkie - I want to be a REAL command line junkie. Thus, I'm looking at my 
> options again.
>
> I'm thinking of using OfflineIMAP. Apparently it's fast (er than imap), 

I too am lurking while sup goes through its early development phases.
In the meantime I use GMail and OfflineIMAP and other than the
occassional bug out from OfflineIMAP things have been working pretty
smoothly for a couple of months.  It's much faster than IMAP, especially
with my mua of choice: mutt.

> and will allow me to send email offline (like offline git commits?).

No, you still send mail using GMail's SMTP server.  It will sync back
any changes you make to the folder structure though.

> how do I do this? How can I set it up?

I figured it out from this link:
http://soren.overgaard.org/2007/12/15/backing-up-gmail-using-offlineimap/

Good luck!

Paul