[nzlug] Beware kmail disconnected IMAP

[Nick 'Zaf' Clifford]

Hadley Rich wrote:
> On Thursday 01 November 2007 01:08:45 Robin Sheat wrote:
>   
>> I use kmail with disconnected IMAP on my laptop, and today it got confused
>> about something, and asked if I wanted to resync. It sounded like something
>> you'd want it to do. _Don't do this!_
>>     
<snip>
> Unfortunately this nasty bug has been around for as long as I can remember on 
> the KDE 3 series. I think it's one of the most voted for bugs on KDE's 
> bugzilla. I don't know what sets it off but it has happened to me once or 
> twice over the years. Backups are good.
>
>   
I'm going to jump on this thread, and possibly change its course
(apologies to those who were looking to bash IMAP or KMail)...

Being a long time user of Thunderbird IMAP (Dovecot server), and now
that Thunderbird has an Offline (disconnected) mode that seems to work,
ok'ish (I'm not 100% happy with it, but it does, for the most part work,
and more importantly, doesn't fail spectacularly), I'm wondering what,
if anything, others use for offline IMAP?

Of the users who are happy IMAP users, what do you use for offline IMAP,
if any?

I find myself often using Webmail (Roundcube, its cute), but my Treo has
an interesting mode. It can be configured to only download only unread,
or only last 1,3,7 days worth of email headers. This works well, since
my IMAP folders regularly contain over a 1000 messages, and I don't like
the idea of synching 1000 headers over a cellular data link :)

Nick