[plug] Overly mobile mail solution

[Adrian Chadd]

I'd suggest putting a box somewhere well-connected (with decent upstream
bandwidth), aggregate mail on it, and then run something like IMAP sync
to sync to your local machine.

2c,


Adrian

On Mon, Mar 03, 2008, Brad Campbell wrote:
> Paul Antoine wrote:
> >50 accounts!! What the hell were you thinking... hehe. I've not used 
> >Cyrus IMAP for replication but have a friend who has so I'll ask and 
> >forward his advice.
> 
> Nah, 8 accounts but about 47 mailing lists..
> 
> >Offline access to email is always a pain in the neck but so often also 
> >very useful so I like your suggested solution!  Might have to try it 
> >myself :-)
> 
> I'm going to set up a spare box / spare laptop on the weekend and try it 
> out kinda live so I'll see how it goes.. nothing like jumping in with both 
> feet. I figure I can configure fetchmail to pull down twice as often as my 
> laptop polls and just set it up to always leave mail on server, leaving my 
> laptop to download/delete. It won't be a full-on live test, but should net 
> me about 700 mails a day to play with. Nice having spare machinery lying 
> around to beat on!
> 
> I just need my mail stored local on my laptop as I'm offline as often as 
> I'm on line, and being stuck in a boring meeting with no connectivity is a 
> great time to catch up on my mail..
> 
> >Anyway, I'll get back to you and the list with anything I find from my 
> >esteemed friend who's just gone through server replication hell :-)
> >
> 
> I'd appreciate that. I'll also let you know the results of my testing in 
> the next week.
> 
> Brad
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