Re: mail synchronisation between laptop and desktop

2003-08-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 11:33:52AM +0100, Sam Clegg wrote: >On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 09:39:00AM -0400, mike dentifrice wrote: >> >> Seems to be easy enough, indeed. Till now, I've been reluctant to use >> Maildir because of disk-space issues (Maildir is a great inode eater!), >> and because my whol

Re: mail synchronisation between laptop and desktop

2003-08-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 11:21:28AM +0100, Daniel Andor wrote: > >Any tools to convert mbox to maildir? sledge:~$ apt-cache show mb2md Package: mb2md Priority: optional Section: net Installed-Size: 104 Maintainer: Noel Koethe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: all Version: 3.10-5 Depends: perl5, lib

Re: mail synchronisation between laptop and desktop

2003-08-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 11:33:52AM +0100, Sam Clegg wrote: >On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 09:39:00AM -0400, mike dentifrice wrote: >> >> Seems to be easy enough, indeed. Till now, I've been reluctant to use >> Maildir because of disk-space issues (Maildir is a great inode eater!), >> and because my whol

Re: mail synchronisation between laptop and desktop

2003-08-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 11:21:28AM +0100, Daniel Andor wrote: > >Any tools to convert mbox to maildir? sledge:~$ apt-cache show mb2md Package: mb2md Priority: optional Section: net Installed-Size: 104 Maintainer: Noel Koethe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: all Version: 3.10-5 Depends: perl5, lib

Re: mail synchronisation between laptop and desktop

2003-08-19 Thread Sam Clegg
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 09:39:00AM -0400, mike dentifrice wrote: > criggie said: > > Maildir would be a beautiful solution - because each email is a uniquely > > numbered file inside a directory structure. Any of the two-way sync > > programs should be able to deal with that. Why do you not want

Re: mail synchronisation between laptop and desktop

2003-08-19 Thread Sam Clegg
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 09:39:00AM -0400, mike dentifrice wrote: > criggie said: > > Maildir would be a beautiful solution - because each email is a uniquely > > numbered file inside a directory structure. Any of the two-way sync > > programs should be able to deal with that. Why do you not want

Re: mail synchronisation between laptop and desktop

2003-08-18 Thread Mike Beattie
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 12:32:04PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 11:21:28AM +0100, Daniel Andor wrote: > > Any tools to convert mbox to maildir? > > If I remember correctly this is what I did some years ago: > > Configure mutt to use maildir and then read the mbox-file with

Re: mail synchronisation between laptop and desktop

2003-08-18 Thread Mike Beattie
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 12:32:04PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 11:21:28AM +0100, Daniel Andor wrote: > > Any tools to convert mbox to maildir? > > If I remember correctly this is what I did some years ago: > > Configure mutt to use maildir and then read the mbox-file with

Re: mail synchronisation between laptop and desktop

2003-08-18 Thread David Raeker-Jordan
mike dentifrice wrote: > > I don't want to leave mails on the server because I have limited storage > space there. And I want to be able to do offline reading, since most > places I travel to happen to be disconnected environents, or connected > via a regular 33k6 modem (which means slow and expen

Re: mail synchronisation between laptop and desktop

2003-08-18 Thread Antonio C Censi
On Monday 18 August 2003 10:39, mike dentifrice wrote: > > > A solution :) > You can try: http://hacks.dlux.hu/maildirsync/ http://mailsync.sourceforge.net/ or an alternate that sync and archive: http://archivemail.sourceforge.net/ Probably there are other in the

Re: mail synchronisation between laptop and desktop

2003-08-18 Thread mike dentifrice
criggie said: > Maildir would be a beautiful solution - because each email is a uniquely > numbered file inside a directory structure. Any of the two-way sync > programs should be able to deal with that. Why do you not want to > switch to maildir format? Its relatively easy too. Seems to be eas

Re: mail synchronisation between laptop and desktop

2003-08-18 Thread mike dentifrice
Daniel Andor said: > Any tools to convert mbox to maildir? The qmail site (http://www.qmail.org) provides a set of scripts to do this (cf http://www.linuxchix.org/pipermail/techtalk/2002-November/013929.html) See also http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/postfix/1999-q4/1477.html -- mike dent

Re: mail synchronisation between laptop and desktop

2003-08-18 Thread Christian Lyra
On Monday 18 August 2003 07:32, Johann Spies wrote: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 11:21:28AM +0100, Daniel Andor wrote: > > Any tools to convert mbox to maildir? > yes... plenty of them, just go to the qmail site (www.qmail.org) and look for maildir. -- Christian Lyra POP-PR - RNP http://l

Re: mail synchronisation between laptop and desktop

2003-08-18 Thread David Raeker-Jordan
mike dentifrice wrote: > > I don't want to leave mails on the server because I have limited storage > space there. And I want to be able to do offline reading, since most > places I travel to happen to be disconnected environents, or connected > via a regular 33k6 modem (which means slow and expen

Re: mail synchronisation between laptop and desktop

2003-08-18 Thread Antonio C Censi
On Monday 18 August 2003 10:39, mike dentifrice wrote: > > > A solution :) > You can try: http://hacks.dlux.hu/maildirsync/ http://mailsync.sourceforge.net/ or an alternate that sync and archive: http://archivemail.sourceforge.net/ Probably there are other in the

Re: mail synchronisation between laptop and desktop

2003-08-18 Thread mike dentifrice
criggie said: > Maildir would be a beautiful solution - because each email is a uniquely > numbered file inside a directory structure. Any of the two-way sync > programs should be able to deal with that. Why do you not want to > switch to maildir format? Its relatively easy too. Seems to be eas

Re: mail synchronisation between laptop and desktop

2003-08-18 Thread mike dentifrice
Daniel Andor said: > Any tools to convert mbox to maildir? The qmail site (http://www.qmail.org) provides a set of scripts to do this (cf http://www.linuxchix.org/pipermail/techtalk/2002-November/013929.html) See also http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/postfix/1999-q4/1477.html -- mike dent

Re: mail synchronisation between laptop and desktop

2003-08-18 Thread Christian Lyra
On Monday 18 August 2003 07:32, Johann Spies wrote: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 11:21:28AM +0100, Daniel Andor wrote: > > Any tools to convert mbox to maildir? > yes... plenty of them, just go to the qmail site (www.qmail.org) and look for maildir. -- Christian Lyra POP-PR - RNP http://ly

Re: mail synchronisation between laptop and desktop

2003-08-18 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 11:21:28AM +0100, Daniel Andor wrote: > Any tools to convert mbox to maildir? If I remember correctly this is what I did some years ago: Configure mutt to use maildir and then read the mbox-file with mutt. When it saves the changed status, it saved it in maildir format. R

Re: mail synchronisation between laptop and desktop

2003-08-18 Thread Daniel Andor
On Monday 18 August 2003 10:45 am, Ross Burton wrote: > On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 10:43, Johann Spies wrote: > > In my maildir's I have files with the name "hcache.db" How do you make > > unison handle those files? > > I don't have those files but do have files with other names -- in > general they are

Re: mail synchronisation between laptop and desktop

2003-08-18 Thread Ross Burton
On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 10:43, Johann Spies wrote: > In my maildir's I have files with the name "hcache.db" How do you make > unison handle those files? I don't have those files but do have files with other names -- in general they are caches and will be re-generated as needed. I just add them to t

Re: mail synchronisation between laptop and desktop

2003-08-18 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 09:58:05AM +0100, Ross Burton wrote: > Correct, which is why I use Unison + maildirs. This way each mail is a > separate file, so it does exactly what I want. I can add and remove > different mails on my desktop and laptop, and then unison does The Right > Thing. In my m

Re: mail synchronisation between laptop and desktop

2003-08-18 Thread Ross Burton
On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 02:29, mike dentifrice wrote: > Unison can do bidirectionnal syncing indeed. But I fear it can't take > *content* into consideration. Unison will look at files as files, not as > mboxes, so it won't know if a mail is to be suppressed (because deleted) > or added (because new),

Re: mail synchronisation between laptop and desktop

2003-08-18 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 11:21:28AM +0100, Daniel Andor wrote: > Any tools to convert mbox to maildir? If I remember correctly this is what I did some years ago: Configure mutt to use maildir and then read the mbox-file with mutt. When it saves the changed status, it saved it in maildir format. R

Re: mail synchronisation between laptop and desktop

2003-08-18 Thread Daniel Andor
On Monday 18 August 2003 10:45 am, Ross Burton wrote: > On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 10:43, Johann Spies wrote: > > In my maildir's I have files with the name "hcache.db" How do you make > > unison handle those files? > > I don't have those files but do have files with other names -- in > general they are

Re: mail synchronisation between laptop and desktop

2003-08-18 Thread Ross Burton
On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 10:43, Johann Spies wrote: > In my maildir's I have files with the name "hcache.db" How do you make > unison handle those files? I don't have those files but do have files with other names -- in general they are caches and will be re-generated as needed. I just add them to t

Re: mail synchronisation between laptop and desktop

2003-08-18 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 09:58:05AM +0100, Ross Burton wrote: > Correct, which is why I use Unison + maildirs. This way each mail is a > separate file, so it does exactly what I want. I can add and remove > different mails on my desktop and laptop, and then unison does The Right > Thing. In my m

Re: mail synchronisation between laptop and desktop

2003-08-18 Thread Ross Burton
On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 02:29, mike dentifrice wrote: > Unison can do bidirectionnal syncing indeed. But I fear it can't take > *content* into consideration. Unison will look at files as files, not as > mboxes, so it won't know if a mail is to be suppressed (because deleted) > or added (because new),

Re: mail synchronisation between laptop and desktop

2003-08-18 Thread criggie
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 18:22:12 -0400 "mike dentifrice" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to find an efficient way to synchronize mail folders > between my laptop and my desktop computer, and would be glad to hear > about some possible (and working!) setups. > I'm using mutt on debian, and my

Re: mail synchronisation between laptop and desktop

2003-08-17 Thread criggie
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 18:22:12 -0400 "mike dentifrice" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to find an efficient way to synchronize mail folders > between my laptop and my desktop computer, and would be glad to hear > about some possible (and working!) setups. > I'm using mutt on debian, and my

Re: mail synchronisation between laptop and desktop

2003-08-17 Thread mike dentifrice
Ryan Nowakowski said: > > Check out unison: > > http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ > > apt-get install unison Unison can do bidirectionnal syncing indeed. But I fear it can't take *content* into consideration. Unison will look at files as files, not as mboxes, so it won't know if a mail is

Re: mail synchronisation between laptop and desktop

2003-08-17 Thread mike dentifrice
Ryan Nowakowski said: > > Check out unison: > > http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ > > apt-get install unison Unison can do bidirectionnal syncing indeed. But I fear it can't take *content* into consideration. Unison will look at files as files, not as mboxes, so it won't know if a mail is

Re: mail synchronisation between laptop and desktop

2003-08-17 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 05:39:24PM -0500, Ryan Nowakowski wrote: > On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 06:22:12PM -0400, mike dentifrice wrote: > > So, any idea/experience? > > Check out unison: > http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ > apt-get install unison > > -- > Ryan Nowakowski > Computer Support

Re: mail synchronisation between laptop and desktop

2003-08-17 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 06:22:12PM -0400, mike dentifrice wrote: > So, any idea/experience? Check out unison: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ apt-get install unison -- Ryan Nowakowski Computer Support for Small Business and Individuals http://austincomputersupport.com pgp4FoDpsaM7b.

Re: mail synchronisation between laptop and desktop

2003-08-17 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 05:39:24PM -0500, Ryan Nowakowski wrote: > On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 06:22:12PM -0400, mike dentifrice wrote: > > So, any idea/experience? > > Check out unison: > http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ > apt-get install unison > > -- > Ryan Nowakowski > Computer Support

Re: mail synchronisation between laptop and desktop

2003-08-17 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 06:22:12PM -0400, mike dentifrice wrote: > So, any idea/experience? Check out unison: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ apt-get install unison -- Ryan Nowakowski Computer Support for Small Business and Individuals http://austincomputersupport.com pgp0.pgp D