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From: lists+sup@protozoic.com (Tim Gray)
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:59:16 -0400
Subject: [sup-talk] problems with Maildir and IMAP offline
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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?