From: lists+sup@protozoic.com (Tim Gray)
Subject: [sup-talk] problems with Maildir and IMAP offline
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:59:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090714155916.GE393@d228.scdc1.swarthmore.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1247585761-sup-5167@Longbow>
On Tue 14, Jul'09 at 11:39 AM -0400, Andrei Thorp wrote:
> 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 :)
Haha. Of course.
> It's roughly because of the extra features in sup:
I got you. Still, I envisage a mail client that has an underlying structure
built on folders. On top of that a database/virtual folder interface is
built. Of course, you'd have the ability to access the folder based
structure when needed. So you could move a message or a conversation to a
given folder if you want.
For example, I have work emails for a certain project with a given label.
It's wonderful that in sup, those currently in my physical inbox and those
currently in an archive folder somewhere show up under the same label in
sup. But there's no mechanism to moving those in my physical inbox to the
archive folder. Some might say who cares, but I can't leave all my email in
my physical inbox forever, which is synced by offlineimap, because people
associated with this project have a nasty habit of sending 10-20 mb
attachments and I don't want to clutter up my IMAP boxes with hundreds of
megs of attachments forever. Heck, I can't do that unless I have an IMAP
service with 25 gigs of storage.* Sometimes they just need to be collected
in a totally offline box, but somewhere that is still accessible by
searching if I need access to it.
Sup is pretty close to this already, minus the access to the underlying
structure.
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[*] Obviously for those of you using Gmail, this isn't an issue. Who cares
about deleting messages?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-14 15:59 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
2009-07-14 15:59 ` Tim Gray [this message]
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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