From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 18 15: 3:49 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C21837B401 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 15:03:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D963B43F3F for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 15:03:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 23:03:32 +0000 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 18lGlq-0001wl-00; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 23:03:26 +0000 Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 23:03:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: cmjg@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk To: Brian Henning Cc: Giorgos Keramidas , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: email and cvs opinion? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Brian Henning wrote: > i guess i am not sure. i really don't know what is out there and what > functionality i want. > i think i want to save my mailbox to a repoitory, check it out when i am reading > it, and write it back when i am done... The question is, why would you want to do this? Two reasons I can think of - which one fits you...? 1. To keep a record of all transactions you've ever performed on your mailbox. 2. To permit multiple "offline" operations on your mailbox which get sync'ed back to the main one whenever you get the opportunity. In the first case you might be better off investigating a flexible mail client (maybe mh, if you can stand it, or some derivative thereof) and hacking the functionality yourself. In the second case, you're probably better off looking for a mail client that supports some sensible kind of offline operation. There are several of those. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Hang on, wasn't he holding a wooden parrot? No! It was a porcelain owl. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message