From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Suvayu Ali Subject: Re: Re: Outlook replacement Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 01:53:00 -0700 Message-ID: <20110326015300.6244490c@bhishma.homelinux.net> References: <87aagjdo5g.fsf@gmail.com> <87ei5u9a8p.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <20110325185912.259714bd@bhishma.homelinux.net> <3187.1301105948@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org> <20110325193035.34ad9768@bhishma.homelinux.net> <87mxkijmu5.fsf@Rainer.invalid> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54606 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q3PF7-0000iK-Bw for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2011 04:53:11 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q3PF5-0006Su-SR for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2011 04:53:09 -0400 Received: from mail-iy0-f169.google.com ([209.85.210.169]:46650) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q3PF5-0006Sh-Ot for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2011 04:53:07 -0400 Received: by iyf13 with SMTP id 13so2377196iyf.0 for ; Sat, 26 Mar 2011 01:53:06 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87mxkijmu5.fsf@Rainer.invalid> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hi Achim, On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 09:41:06 +0100 Achim Gratz wrote: > Suvayu Ali writes: > > Also I often access email from multiple locations, home workstation, > > university workstation and my laptop. Not sure how to deal with > > that. > > The two solutions to deal with that problem at the extreme ends: you > either leave all mail on the server(s) all the time, which means you > need network access (you can cache IMAP but not POP) or you always > pull all mail down to the same machine which means you'll always need > access to that machine. There's a spectrum of solutions between > these two extremes, but if you need full access to all mail on all > machines you will have to store it on the net somehow (well, you > could put it onto a USB stick I guess *shudder*). > After the comments form Nick, I think my last attempt to try OfflineImap was the optimum solution for this problem. I'll have to delve back into that when I find the time (hoping that will be in a couple of months :) ). > > Achim. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.