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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html