* Ray Van Dolson <rvandol...@esri.com> [20.08.2013. @12:03:35 -0700]:
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 08:56:40PM +0200, Christoph Möbius wrote: > > > Do any one have any inputs or caveats in store the Maildir folders on > > > dropbox > > > to sync them between different computers? > > > > Since you sent via gmail, I assume you want to access your Google mails from > > different machines. Why don't you just access your mails via IMAP instead of > > POP?. The mails would still reside on the server side and you can access > > them > > from wherever you are. > > I do this and it works pretty well. The biggest downside from the mutt > perspective is latency -- especially when using imaps to talk to Google > (which of course you're doing, right??). > > I've found using stunnel as a shim to talk imaps to Google and provide > regular imap locally to mutt helps things feel a little "quicker". > Have also considered writing a Python script to pre-populate the mutt > header cache periodically so that when you load up mutt you aren't > sitting there waiting for it to read through a large number of new > messages' headers. > > Ray Why not using offlineimap with a cron to retrieve emails (and to avoid the latency)? It is very easy and efficient. I a using offlineimap on all of my computers/servers, or I simply ssh my server where Mutt is installed. The idea of using dropbox to synchronize emails from gmail looks crazy. I would never give my data to such a company/service. Emails are particularly important: they basically contain all my life! If you really want to synchronize your computers without the ad-hoc tool, you can try to rsync your Maildir. But I definitively prefer offlineimap. Regards, JC
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