Re: message_cachedir and imap_cachedir
On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 02:25:49AM -0400, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> On Monday, August 7 at 08:55 PM, quoth michael-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
> >>> 2. Are there any particular flags that I need to enable
> >>> message_cachedir in 1.5.12?
> >>
> >> Nope. :)
> >>
> >
> > Well, except for enable-imap. :-)
>
> enable-pop will do it as well.
>
> > But I find this doesn't quite do what I expected. I was hoping for
> > an offline imap cache so I could read mail whil not connected. This
> > only appears to cache the messages read but does not make them
> > available offline. Am I doing this wrong?
>
> Nope, you're doing it exactly right. It was decided (by fiat,
> essentially) that the cache would not be stored in a standard mailbox
> format (e.g. maildir). The point of the cache is so that you don't
> have to re-download messages that you've already viewed. If you'd
> rather have the ability to view things offline, then you should
> probably put in a feature request (http://bugs.mutt.org).
>
Kyle and Thomas, thank you for your replies. I decided to go a
different route and use offlineimap to scan my IMAP folders periodically
and sync it with a maildir folder tree on my local machine. This gives
me the capability to work offline.
Thanks again.
--
Mike