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== offlineimap to read emails when no network connection is available == | == offlineimap to read emails when no network connection is available == | ||
- | While one major advantage to IMAP protocol is being able to directly and remotely access emails on an account, when you don't have any network connection, you just can | + | While one major advantage to IMAP protocol is to being able to directly and remotely access emails on an account, when you don't have any network connection, you just can access them... A workaround is to use a tool like [http://wiki.github.com/jgoerzen/offlineimap/ OfflineIMAP], which can synchronize an IMAP account with a local maildir. |
This sync occurs both ways: changes on IMAP account will propagate to maildir, changes on maildir will propagate to IMAP account. This ensure what you'll locally read will also be marked as read on the IMAP server. | This sync occurs both ways: changes on IMAP account will propagate to maildir, changes on maildir will propagate to IMAP account. This ensure what you'll locally read will also be marked as read on the IMAP server. | ||
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If only Modest could directly access our local maildir... Since it only support POP and IMAP account, we could install a local IMAP server, serving our maildir. Modest would then access this local IMAP server. This way, the remote sync part is delegated to offlineimap, while we can still use GUI front-ends. You'll still need to tell Modest to sync to the local maildir to check new emails. A short interval, 5 min, will ensure it'll be able to sync (since it's local, there's no network related issue anymore). | If only Modest could directly access our local maildir... Since it only support POP and IMAP account, we could install a local IMAP server, serving our maildir. Modest would then access this local IMAP server. This way, the remote sync part is delegated to offlineimap, while we can still use GUI front-ends. You'll still need to tell Modest to sync to the local maildir to check new emails. A short interval, 5 min, will ensure it'll be able to sync (since it's local, there's no network related issue anymore). | ||
- | So, there are many IMAP server out there, I found dovecot to be easy to package and use. | + | So, there are many IMAP server out there, I found dovecot to be easy to package and use. See end of page for a link to deb file. Install it as root |
sudo gainroot | sudo gainroot | ||
- | + | dpkg -i dovecot_1.2.11-1_armel.deb | |
exit | exit | ||
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* [http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7090003/dovecot_1.2.11-1_armel.deb dovecot_1.2.11-1_armel.deb] | * [http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7090003/dovecot_1.2.11-1_armel.deb dovecot_1.2.11-1_armel.deb] | ||
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* [http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7090003/mutt_1.5.20-2_armel.deb mutt_1.5.20-2_armel.deb] | * [http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7090003/mutt_1.5.20-2_armel.deb mutt_1.5.20-2_armel.deb] | ||
* [http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7090003/offlineimap_6.2.1_all.deb offlineimap_6.2.1_all.deb] | * [http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7090003/offlineimap_6.2.1_all.deb offlineimap_6.2.1_all.deb] | ||
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