On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 08:18:17AM +0100, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > > Citeren David Lang <david.lang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > what do you consider a 'modern IMAP client' that is actually reasonably > > efficiant to use? > > I can't help you answer that question. But I can share my setup. > > I'm using the offlineimap client so sync my IMAP (Cyrus of course) > accounts (2 in fact). > > I then use mutt to read the maildir. Heh. You are me. > This way I use a normal IMAP client when I'm online (or have a fast > connection). When I'm offline or on 3G (or worse) I use the > offlineimap tool to sync my mailbox now and then. I use mutt and offlineimap or the FastMail web interface. I don't tend to bother with a separate IMAP client - just run offlineimap and then use mutt. > To me using offlineimap to sync my mailbox I much faster than doing > IMAP over slow links. It also gives me a backup of my mailbox very > easily. Offlineimap is slow too - it syncs all the flags and internaldates on every message, every time. You might want this patch: http://github.com/brong/brong-offlineimap/commit/7846ab83c5c45911749ab1cb42569702363a619b You'll need a pretty current Cyrus of course, but then you get COMPRESS=DEFLATE support built in to offlineimap. I find about 80% bandwidth savings when there are few actual changes on a big account. Bron. ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
