Re: Failing to reproduce file hierarchy locally

[Andy Schofield <ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> What I do is I run Dovecot locally as well as remotely.  So I have
> e.g. Evolution talk to the local Dovecot.
> 
> That way I get the benefits of Dovecot like its indexes.  I recommend 
> doing that - also, that means you can be sure that you can have many 
> multiple local clients accessing the Maildirs over IMAP.

Yes - I wondered about that. However my concern here is the issue of
local caching. As far as I can see whenever a client gets an email
message off an IMAP server it caches a local copy to reduce network
traffic in case you look at the email again. However with a local
server that is completely redundant and you will end up with two copies
of every email on every client (one in ~/Maildir, and one wherever the
client chooses to cache it).

Is there a way of telling clients like Evolution/Thunderbird not to keep
cached copies?

> 
> You can special-case it in my Python function: if s == 'INBOX':
> return '', or something like that.  I would still suggest doing 
> Maildir++ plus IMAP on both ends, though.

I had a couple of goes at this before sending the email to the list.
Trouble is I don't speak python and am not completely clear on the
required syntax of the nametrans command...

Andy


> 
> -- Asheesh.
> 
> --
> Miller's Slogan:
>       Lose a few, lose a few.