Pine (was: Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 17, Issue 20)

Eric Christopherson echristopherson at gmail.com
Fri Nov 20 21:05:56 CST 2015


On Sat, Nov 21, 2015, Pete Turnbull wrote:
> On 20/11/2015 19:39, Eric Christopherson wrote:
> 
> >I'm considering doing something that actually downloads my Gmail content
> >locally and keeps it in sync periodically, but I haven't really looked at
> >what's necessary for that.
> 
> You could use fetchmail to snarf it and any IMAP server to make it available
> as you like - I use UW imapd, which is pretty lightweight.

True, but my concern is that if I made changes in my local copy to
better suit me, the official Gmail copy would eventually conflict with
it pretty badly. I admit I haven't investigated the issue, though.

-- 
        Eric Christopherson


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