quote("Gottfried Szing");
>i am using mozilla with imap, but the support of imap is not really 
>usable if there is a slow dial up connection. mozilla first downloads 
>the headers, afterwards the message body and when i move the message 
>into a local folder, it downloads the message body again. and this is 
>really boring with large messages and dial up connections.
>
>is there a way to sync imap folders with the local mozilla mail folders 
>without restarting mozilla? til now i have used scp to copy the whole 
>inbox to a specific position in the local mail storage folder, but 
>afterwards i had to restart mozilla.
>
>any hints are welcome, gottfried

You could use offlineimap which basically syncronises from your IMAP
server to a local Maildir, which you can then use with most mail clients
(I'm not sure about Mozilla, but I'd expect it to have Maildir support
as it is fairly standard)

 - Chris
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