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

From: Lurkos <lurkos.usenet@gmail.com>
To: sup-talk <sup-talk@rubyforge.org>
Subject: Re: [sup-talk] IMAP, labels, editors
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 02:27:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTin8ai-RZvURxAQmJ-98esNFOMwR0mWvm5ftsHP6@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1290889043-sup-6470@mailer>

On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 9:26 PM, Damien Leone <damien.leone@fensalir.fr> wrote:
>> 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.

This seems really interesting... and possibly a indication that the
IMAP support would not be dropped.

Thanks for your answers.

Cheers,

-- 
Lurkos
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