Re: [VM] Accessing large IMAP folders

[emacs user]

If your large folder size is due to attachments, you can delete them locally in 
vm, storing them separately, and this might reduce the folder size.  the 
attachements on the server are not deleted (at least using gmail, I find).  
cheers, E


On Thursday, August 16, 2012 4:33:42 AM UTC-4, Uday Reddy wrote:
> Stefan Monnier writes:
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> > The next question is: can VM download those "external messages" but
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> > store them in a separate file (I do like having a complete local copy of
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> > all my email, so I can read it offline)?
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> That looks like an interesting piece of functionality.  We don't have
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> anything like that at the moment.  
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> One can run a local IMAP service and synchronize it with the mail server
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> using offlineimap.  But I suppose you know that solution already?
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> Cheers,
> 
> Uday