From: Paul Michael Reilly <pmr@pajato.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Rmail-mbox branch
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:55:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48AD73D0.7080300@pajato.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvfxozirhg.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> Here's my conundrum. I'm married to IMAP, for better or worse. I have my
>> mail on a very reliable RAID5, backed up, fast server. One under my
>
> Adding proper IMAP support to Rmail is between difficult and impossible,
Distressing but not surprising to hear. I'm guessing there has been
discussions around this topic but I can't find any trace. Do you have a
reference or can you elaborate?
> but if you limit yourself to using the IMAP protocol in order to
> download your messages (i.e. as if it were just POP), then it should be
> pretty simple and indeed using GNU mailutils's code may give you this
> feature for free.
I am getting my messages now using the mailutil movemail which will
allow me to use both Rmail/mbox and Thunderbird on a daily basis.
> We do want to bring Emacs's and mailutils's movemail closer.
This is very good to hear. What else can you tell me? Is someone
working on it? Have constraints been established? Having movemail
provide a "synchronize" operation for IMAP seems to make some sense to
me but in due time I suppose.
-pmr
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-21 13:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 89+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-11 18:05 Rmail-mbox branch Chong Yidong
2008-06-30 12:20 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-06-30 13:06 ` Chong Yidong
2008-06-30 13:50 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-06-30 13:59 ` Miles Bader
2008-06-30 15:57 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <4868F9F0.2060408@pajato.com>
2008-06-30 18:29 ` Miles Bader
2008-06-30 16:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-30 17:48 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-07-03 21:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-08-18 5:15 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-08-18 6:01 ` Miles Bader
2008-08-18 6:05 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-08-18 6:52 ` Miles Bader
2008-08-18 12:18 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-08-29 7:04 ` Glenn Morris
2008-08-31 4:27 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-08-31 18:50 ` Chong Yidong
2008-08-31 19:15 ` Evil Boris
2008-09-01 3:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-01 11:46 ` Evil Boris
2008-09-01 19:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-01 19:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-02 3:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-01 23:46 ` Evil Boris
2008-09-02 2:38 ` Evil Boris
2008-09-02 3:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-02 11:53 ` Evil Boris
2008-09-03 20:12 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-09-02 14:13 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-03 2:46 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-09-03 4:41 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-03 6:28 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-09-04 0:10 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-04 2:26 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-09-04 7:03 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-09-04 8:44 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-09-04 13:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-04 21:58 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-09-04 15:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-04 22:00 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-09-05 2:20 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-05 5:33 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-09-06 21:05 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-08 4:57 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-09-08 8:36 ` Francesco Potorti`
2008-09-08 9:53 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-09-08 13:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-09 1:58 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-09-08 19:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-08 16:42 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-08 17:55 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-09-09 2:54 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-09-09 14:11 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-10 9:10 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-09-10 11:43 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-09-10 12:23 ` tomas
2008-09-10 17:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-11 2:39 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-09-10 15:07 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-09-03 16:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-03 19:56 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-09-04 0:45 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-09-04 4:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-04 2:36 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-09-04 7:27 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-09-02 3:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-01 6:11 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-01 8:42 ` Francesco Potorti`
2008-09-01 11:25 ` Evil Boris
2008-09-01 19:39 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-09-01 20:20 ` Chong Yidong
2008-09-01 20:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-02 1:09 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-02 3:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-03 2:41 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-03 3:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-03 19:46 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-09-03 20:20 ` Chong Yidong
2008-09-03 23:37 ` Glenn Morris
2008-09-04 0:10 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-02 19:17 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-09-01 1:06 ` Glenn Morris
2008-09-01 19:19 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-08-19 4:31 ` Chong Yidong
2008-08-19 7:15 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-08-20 16:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-08-21 13:55 ` Paul Michael Reilly [this message]
2008-08-27 15:47 ` Stefan Monnier
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