On Sunday 03 May 2009 00:00:13 James wrote: > I must admit that Thunderbird is pretty good about keeping tabs on the > many mailboxes I have and updating me when something new pops up. > > From what I've been told, gbuffy is one of the few tools that actually > does what I'm looking for, but as Grant mentioned it won't compile > successfully (at least not using the ebuild in the portage tree). > > Any thoughts on how to do this when using IMAP and lots of folders? :)
How about this, thinking slightly out the box: Pop your mail to a local maildir, but do not delete mails from the server. Run a local IMAP server with that maildir as it's source and point your mail client at it Getmail is excellent at popping like this, it works in the background and you can use whatever filtering tool you fancy. If you need mails more immediately than within three minutes you really should be using jabber instead :-) With local IMAP you can change mail clients in an instant without mucking about with all that tedious import/export stuff. And every mailbox monitoring tool out there will monitor local maildirs and do it well. With this you get all the benefits of IMAP, albeit in a sort of disconnected fashion, and you only suffer the bandwidth hit with large mails once. Your mails are still on the server, so you can still connect to them with IMAP if you wish. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
