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.

mail synchronisation between laptop and desktop

2003-08-17 Thread mike dentifrice
Hello out there, 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. Here's my configuration and what I would like to do: I'm using mutt on debian, and my mail folders are

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

mail synchronisation between laptop and desktop

2003-08-17 Thread mike dentifrice
Hello out there, 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. Here's my configuration and what I would like to do: I'm using mutt on debian, and my mail folders are