From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Oct 5 16:08:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA15234 for mobile-outgoing; Sun, 5 Oct 1997 16:08:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile) Received: from twinlark.arctic.org (twinlark.arctic.org [204.62.130.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA15225 for ; Sun, 5 Oct 1997 16:08:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dgaudet-list-freebsd-mobile@arctic.org) Received: (qmail 15276 invoked by uid 500); 5 Oct 1997 23:09:06 -0000 Date: Sun, 5 Oct 1997 16:09:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Dean Gaudet To: John Polstra cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Seamless nomadic e-mail access In-Reply-To: <199710052025.NAA28117@austin.polstra.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 5 Oct 1997, John Polstra wrote: > Overall, I'm pretty disappointed at the state of the art for this mode > of operation. I had hoped the world would be further along by now. What I think I'd like to see is an IMAP 4 disconnected mode proxy server. Let it talk IMAP 4 with another IMAP 4 server to cache the mail locally and do all the other fun disconnected mode stuff. Then whatever method your local mail program wants to use is fine, i.e. it could use IMAP locally or direct mailbox access (the proxy needs to store metadata somewhere other than the mailbox itself unlike the UW imap daemon). This should make it easier to find a good client and also run things offline. So if anyone is looking for a project ... Dean