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From: paul.t.hinze@gmail.com (Paul Hinze)
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:13:52 -0500
Subject: [sup-talk] Gmail and OfflineIMAP
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fedzor <fedzor at gmail.com> on 2008-10-14 at 17:14:
>
> On Oct 14, 2008, at 6:06 PM, Paul Hinze wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Wait, where does sup come into play if you're using mutt? I'm confused as 
> to what "Sup as a Service" really means.

Using the instructions linked in my previous email will allow you to use
offlineimap to mirror GMail account locally in Maildir format.  AFAICT,
you could then use sup, which supports Maildir as a source, to read and
search through your mail.

Hope this helps,

Paul