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Re: [sup-talk] any testimonials from users who transitioned from mutt?
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 12:25 AM, Steven Hum <sdothum@gmail.com> wrote:
> Even then, I am not sure if heliotrope will address the maildir
> back sync issue (there is an imaptrope fork which may address this). If
> it doesn't, it may not provide me with any benefit towards my offline
> mail usage.
I guess you're talking about https://github.com/rakoo/imaptrope. This
was actually the only reason why I didn't use heliotrope/turnsole (and
sup before it) full-time : I didn't want to do some gymnastics back
and forth for my mail, like everyone here. That's why I started
imaptrope. Unfortunately, I arrived to a point where using http
doesn't give me sufficient speed for the task. So I set out to
integrate it directly in heliotrope.
The result of my work is at
https://github.com/rakoo/heliotrope/tree/imap. You can now run an imap
server along the http one with the following command :
ruby -Ilib bin/heliotrope-server -d /path/to/data --with-imap
and connect to it on localhost:10142. As I explain in the README, the
goal is not to do a fully functional IMAP server, but just enough bits
to work with OfflineIMAP. This software does a great job, and will be
a very helpful tool for a smooth transition. This will be better than
reimplementing some 2-way-syncing-magic once again.
For the moment, heliotrope -> maildir works with a standard
offlineimap installation. Yay ! Don't do it on big mailboxes though,
because it will be horribly long (and by big I mean 100 messages. Yes,
that's not big, I'm working on it)
It is saddening to see that many people are interested in this great
project yet seems to be dying. I was thinking this may be due to
William abandoning sup in favor of heliotrope, and everyone still
following the former ? Anyway, I'll be happily hacking on heliotrope,
so everyone who is willing to continue is warmly invited to test
things out !
--
Matthieu RAKOTOJAONA
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