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Greetings,
I'm in a situation where I will be with limited internet access such that I will be able to connect to the internet once a day for a brief period of time. This limits things like video and audio streaming, but I think I can still use the internet, but in a more indirect way.
I've got a Gmail account setup in Thunderbird via IMAP, working offline by default. In Gmail, I use a lot of "Labels" which through IMAP appear as Folders in Thunderbird. At the moment I'm trying to sort through all 16k messages to avoid downloading duplicate mail. I'm moving everything from the Inbox into specific folders to try and avoid the duplicates, but I'm not sure if that is going smoothly yet. (What happens when certain messages are under two different labels? Are there copies in each label/folder they're filed under?)
I've also got some RSS feeds setup in Thunderbird. These are great, BUT only when the feed provides the whole article instead of just the article summary. If it shows just the summary, then the RSS feed is useless because I wouldn't be able to read the full article offline as it links to the full article on the website. Is there anyway around this?
Finally, for webpages that don't have RSS feeds, I will attempt to use wget to create offline mirrors of sites that have things I'd like to see and read.
Does anyone else have any comments, links to resources, or suggestions?
Thanks,
~wk
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If you go to your account settings -> Synchronization & Storage -> Keep messages for this account on this computer you should have them downloaded already, right? I don't get what your question is then.
For your feeds there's also an option to show only the summary which you can uncheck. You can also run a script that wgets all the links in the feed, but that can be a lot very quickly I suppose.
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