Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 23:03:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: Brian Henning <b1henning@hotmail.com> Cc: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: email and cvs opinion? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0302182300330.25992-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <OE73GJ2TUSzbAUfKRfc000000af@hotmail.com>
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On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Brian Henning wrote: > i guess i am not sure. i really don't know what is out there and what > functionality i want. > i think i want to save my mailbox to a repoitory, check it out when i am reading > it, and write it back when i am done... The question is, why would you want to do this? Two reasons I can think of - which one fits you...? 1. To keep a record of all transactions you've ever performed on your mailbox. 2. To permit multiple "offline" operations on your mailbox which get sync'ed back to the main one whenever you get the opportunity. In the first case you might be better off investigating a flexible mail client (maybe mh, if you can stand it, or some derivative thereof) and hacking the functionality yourself. In the second case, you're probably better off looking for a mail client that supports some sensible kind of offline operation. There are several of those. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Hang on, wasn't he holding a wooden parrot? No! It was a porcelain owl. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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