From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Suvayu Ali Subject: Re: Re: Outlook replacement Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2011 10:27:34 -0700 Message-ID: <20110402102734.6e434461@kuru.homelinux.net> References: <87aagjdo5g.fsf@gmail.com> <87ei5u9a8p.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <20110325185912.259714bd@bhishma.homelinux.net> <87tyegtzni.fsf@dod.no> <87fwq0aap2.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=39326 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q64bw-0005rD-6u for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Apr 2011 13:27:45 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q64bv-0000EQ-0S for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Apr 2011 13:27:44 -0400 Received: from mail-iy0-f169.google.com ([209.85.210.169]:35493) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q64bu-0000Dz-Tc for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Apr 2011 13:27:42 -0400 Received: by iyf13 with SMTP id 13so5967374iyf.0 for ; Sat, 02 Apr 2011 10:27:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87fwq0aap2.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> 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 On Sat, 02 Apr 2011 17:18:33 +0100 Eric S Fraga wrote: > Steinar Bang writes: > > >>>>>> Suvayu Ali : > > > >> How do you (as in all users using Emacs as their email client) deal > >> with unreliable networks? When I used to use tramp over a > >> particularly slow/unreliable network day before, I found every > >> time tramp got stuck emacs would hang too until tramp could > >> recover. > > > > What does tramp have to do with using emacs as an email client? > > I think the point was that tramp on an unreliable network illustrates > the problems with emacs's single-threaded implementation and not that > it is otherwise related to email in emacs. Yes, that was my point of mentioning tramp. I think the conclusion we arrived at was to use OfflineImap would be the most optimum solution for my use case. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.