Re: Store Mailbox directory on Dropbox

2013-08-21 Thread Leon Waldman
On 08/21, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > On Tuesday, August 20 at 03:24 PM, quoth Leon Waldman: > >Do any one have any inputs or caveats in store the Maildir folders > >on dropbox to sync them between different computers? > > I think the caveat is going to be race conditions; and given that > Dropbox can b

Re: Store Mailbox directory on Dropbox

2013-08-21 Thread Kyle Wheeler
On Tuesday, August 20 at 03:24 PM, quoth Leon Waldman: Do any one have any inputs or caveats in store the Maildir folders on dropbox to sync them between different computers? I think the caveat is going to be race conditions; and given that Dropbox can be used offline, the race conditions can

Re: Store Mailbox directory on Dropbox

2013-08-20 Thread Jean-Christophe Bach
* Ray Van Dolson [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

Re: Store Mailbox directory on Dropbox

2013-08-20 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Christoph Möbius [08-20-13 15:00]: > > 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 y

Re: Store Mailbox directory on Dropbox

2013-08-20 Thread Leon Waldman
On 08/20, 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

Re: Store Mailbox directory on Dropbox

2013-08-20 Thread Ray Van Dolson
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 machine

Re: Store Mailbox directory on Dropbox

2013-08-20 Thread Christoph Möbius
> 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

Store Mailbox directory on Dropbox

2013-08-20 Thread Leon Waldman
Hi, Do any one have any inputs or caveats in store the Maildir folders on dropbox to sync them between different computers? One thing is that I will have mutt configured on both of them, so I'm a little worried about conflicts that could arise. OTOH, I don't use automatic sync so it should ne