Re: backup and synchronize to fastmail

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 17 May 2008 7:27:58 pm Alejandro Jakubi wrote:
[ snip ]

> Do not worry, once I get it work, you will no longer get any other message
> from me...

That's too bad.  I'd rather hear from you once you're actually using it!

>
> > Incidentally, if you have shell access on that Fedora cluster, there's
> > nothing stopping you from running the latest versions out of your home
> > directory.
>
> Because my experience with the compilation of applications in Linux has
> been mostly negative for many years. And say that I was root on my own
> systems. In this system I am a plain user, and I would not been able to do
> much in case of compilation problems. So, I prefer to avoid it as far as
> possible.

There is no compilation or even installation necessary.

Just say "python offlineimap.py" in the top-level untarred directory and 
that's it.

-- John