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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: kmail usability with IMAP
From:       David Pashley <david () davidpashley ! com>
Date:       2002-07-31 21:15:11
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On Tuesday 30 July 2002 5:58 pm, David Bishop wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 July 2002 10:48 am, Michael Kreitzer wrote:
> > The entire purpose of imap is to keep the mail on the server, filter via
> > the server, and do just about everything else on the server.  It allows
> > you to be able to read and check your e-mail from any location along with
> > various other benefits.  KMail seems to be sticking with that philosophy.
> > You'd be best advised to either use another client or use fetchmail like
> > someone else here already mentioned.  One of these days the KMail authors
> > might add the ability to treat imap as if it was suppose to be stored
> > locally, but for now the best you can seem to do is move messages to the
> > local folders by hand.
>
> I think what Unai was asking for is just what other imap clients give you:
> cache the full email locally, then compare with the imap server when you
> connect again.  Apple's iMail does this quite nicely, such that you can
> read and delete and responde (etc) to your emails off-line, then when you
> sync back up, it executes the actions (assuming the emails weren't already
> deleted in the meantime).  Anyways, it combines the flexibility of IMAP
> with the ease-of-use of POP3, quite nicely.
>
> Having said that, it's been an oft-requested feature, and any bug reports
> will undoubtably be closed as duplicate.
>
> Have a nice day :-)

AIUI IMAP was designed with disconnected use in mind. you can perform actions 
(copy/move/delete) on a local cache and then the client should update the 
server with those changes.

One point to note is that many imap servers keep folders in $HOME, so any 
cache will need to make sure it doesn't conflict with that.

- -- 
David Pashley
david@davidpashley.com
Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione.
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