Re: OfflineIMAP + Wanderlust

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 12:55:49AM +0100, David Wallin wrote:
> > Second, an option.  You could run a local IMAP server and point both
> > OfflineIMAP and WL to it.
> > 
> 
> This was one thing I wanted to experiment with, and I tried Dovecot,
> as it was recommended to me, but I had trouble setting it up against
> the Maildir structure used by OfflineIMAP. I think maybe using
> OfflineIMAP as a IMAP to IMAP synchroniser would make sense ?

Yes, exactly.  That's what I meant to suggest.  You have OfflineIMAP
synchronize to your local IMAP server, whatever it may be, directly.
Then you also have WL connect to your local IMAP server.

Then you have only the IMAP server handling things, so this problem
should be avoided.

> > Really, this sort of filtering should happen on the server if possible.
> 
> I'm not sure that's possible.

Understood.

> > I'd say that's a bug in WL -- all sorts of things in Maildirs are
> > based on filenames, including flags...  it sounds like simply
> > pulling up the folder in mutt could cause it problems...
> > 
> 
> The problem occurs because I run Offlineimap as a cronjob, and the
> filename could change while I edit the reply. I don't see how WL could
> work any different in this case. 

Hmm.  mutt doesn't seem to have any problem.  I wonder what it's doing?

-- John