IMAP offline

[C Barrington-Leigh]

I would very much like to use alpine on more than one computer to
access my mail, but I need to be able to work on it when offline as
well. Thunderbird now has a wonderful ability to use IMAP with a fully-
synced copy of mail on the local machine as an option -- ie one can
access full versions of all one's email while offline.
The alpine interface seems unbeatable but this very valuable feature
is a hole from my point of view.
Is there any development on this? Is this an old topic / highly
desired item (I can't see mention of it in at least a couple of
yearson this forum)? Have others found good alternatives to bridge
the gap?

Thanks!
Chris

[Mark Crispin]

This is a very old task list item - at least 15 years old. It is doubtful
that UW will ever do it. However, a new project has just launched on
SourceForge called re-alpine:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/re-alpine/

So you ought to ask there.

On Wed, 10 Jun 2009, C Barrington-Leigh posted:

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[Lucas Levrel]

Le 10 juin 2009, C Barrington-Leigh a écrit :

> Have others found good alternatives to bridge the gap?

Can't fetchmail do the trick? (Never used it but looks like what you
need.)

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LL

[John Mayson]

Clients like Thunderbird perform two tasks: mail transport and mail
viewing/composing. Alpine is better suited to the latter. I think a
better solution would be running software like imapsync to keep your
server and computer synchronized.

Just my two cents. We could get real philosophical about what a mail
client should and should not do.

John

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