Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>>>> "Colin" == Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Colin> Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> In my search for a "perfect" offline IMAP client(TM) I have > >> looked at isync vs mailsync. > > Colin> What's wrong with Gnus? Perhaps with the Agent? I admit > Colin> I've never tried disconnected IMAP with it, but I see > Colin> people talking about it on the ding lists. > > Gnus seems to be slow and inefficient. In online mode, it doesn't seem > to cache anything for any reason, so just reading a message you read > seconds ago requires downloading it again. It also means that messages > need to be downloaded again for offline reading.
There's a whole ton of caching options in gnus, but I haven't yet figured out how they work. > However, the real killer, was that I could not get offline reading to > work with IMAP, only NNTP. Perhaps I was doing something wrong, not > sure here. At the time I took the easy way out and concluded that IMAP > wasn't supported <grin>. Works fine here (gnus 5.8.8) > Despite these problems, Gnus is the only program I have seen that will > highlight replies to my mail, something I find very valuable in large > mailing lists like this one. > > Another alternative that looked good last time I tried was Mozilla, as > it seems to have very good off-line mail support. However, it was > buggy and often refused to enter mail groups for no good reason, so I > gave up on that. Eventually I will have to try it again. Offline downloading for me in Mozilla broke in 0.9.3, and I've heard mail is/has been completely broken in cvs recently. I've tried almost all the options mentioned in this thread (mutt + mailsync, mozilla, gnus) and have settled on gnus. It's really nice once you get it to behave. -- Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
