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manzinger

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Registered: 2009-11-11

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offlineimap alternative for MH format?

Hi
Currently I use offlineimap in a cronjob every 5minutes. A widget in my statusbar tells me whether there is new mail.
I then open mutt or alpine (still can't decide which I like more) to read/write mail.
However I now tend to use claws-mail a lot, but it does not support maildir format. There was a maildir plugin but it is obviously not supported any more.
I'm now looking for an alternative to offlineimap which provides the same functionality for claws MH mail format. I don't want to have claws sitting in the background all the time. I also use offlineimap on my laptop to have my mail synced.

any ideas how to manage this?
thanks for input.

ngoonee

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Re: offlineimap alternative for MH format?

I run dovecot on offlineimap's maildir. Assume claws-mail does IMAP?

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manzinger

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Registered: 2009-11-11

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Re: offlineimap alternative for MH format?

thanks for your reply. Your solution is also mentioned on the offlineimap site, running a imap-server on the local machine, but I think this is way too complicated for me. I think about trying evolution or kmail, they support maildir I think.

Damnshock

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Re: offlineimap alternative for MH format?

thanks for your reply. Your solution is also mentioned on the offlineimap site, running a imap-server on the local machine, but I think this is way too complicated for me. I think about trying evolution or kmail, they support maildir I think.

Kmail does, not so sure about Evolution: I think it can import from maildir mailboxes but works on mbox format

Anyway, about running a local imap-server is not that complicated and works pretty well

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manzinger

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Registered: 2009-11-11

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Re: offlineimap alternative for MH format?

I gave up on evolution and kmail, these have crazy dependencies with like 200-300mb. Perhaps I'll try the imap-server thing or go back to optimizing mutt.

ngoonee

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Re: offlineimap alternative for MH format?

Evo 'works' with maildir directly. I have had trouble with I/O when it accesses maildir directly though. I highly recommend running an internal IMAP server, its not very hard. Check out the dovecot wiki.

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