On Sat, 02 Apr 2011 17:18:33 +0100 Eric S Fraga <e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
> Steinar Bang <s...@dod.no> writes: > > >>>>>> Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com>: > > > >> How do you (as in all users using Emacs as their email client) deal > >> with unreliable networks? When I used to use tramp over a > >> particularly slow/unreliable network day before, I found every > >> time tramp got stuck emacs would hang too until tramp could > >> recover. > > > > What does tramp have to do with using emacs as an email client? > > I think the point was that tramp on an unreliable network illustrates > the problems with emacs's single-threaded implementation and not that > it is otherwise related to email in emacs. Yes, that was my point of mentioning tramp. I think the conclusion we arrived at was to use OfflineImap would be the most optimum solution for my use case. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.
