Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
David Looney wrote:
Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
David Looney wrote:
I also don't want to be running my own IMAP server (don't want to have
to be dependent on network connectivity from my laptop, e.g.).
In what way does the offline mode of Thunderbird fail you?
Two independent facts. 1. I don't want to run my own IMAP server.
That's fine. Then presumably you are picking up via POP from someone
else. I'm pretty sure Thunderbird doesn't care.
However, if someone else runs the server, then your email has no
security anyhow. Furthermore, at least IMAP will encrypt it on the
wire. I don't think POP does that.
2. I
want all mail (~3.2 GB currently) to be available. I haven't tried
offline mode (1), but it seemed to me the idea was to be selective in
folders so designated (hence 2).
You can be selective. Or, you can be like me, and just grab everything.
How do you think IMAP synchronization would rank compared to rsync of
mail directories in terms of efficiency ?
Pretty much identical. Offline mode in thunderbird keeps track of what
has been downloaded and only downloads new stuff.
There might be some gain since rsync can compress, but rsync will
transfer a lot more hashing data to work out what has changed. It's
probably a wash.
A solution to all these problems is to set up a Google Mail account and
use POP to get your mail. Configure the account to keep your mail even
after you retrieve it. You can also use Google SMTP server for sending
mail, in which case it will also keep copies of all your outgoing mail
as well.
Google POP accounts use SSL on port 995 to retrieve mail, and TLS on
port 587 to send. This will eliminate sniffing at least from you to the
mail server.
Info on GMail <http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13273>
Info on Thunderbird:
<http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=38343>
I use POP on a Google mail account and it works great. Although the
amount of mail you (David Looney) currently have is quite a bit, you
could probably break it up into several accounts. Either that or start
from scratch and put all your old mail on an encrypted DVD and carry it
around with you as an archive.
Gus
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