Re: [Nmh-workers] IMAP, again

[Ken Hornstein]

>Something like offlineimap could change all of that.  A local MH view
>of my IMAP server would be a godsend in many ways.  And for me, the
>manual sync model actually fits very well with how I do things.

I completely agree.  And like you said, teaching MH about IMAP is
a huge job.

>The big question I have is: how well does offlineimap handle merge
>conflicts between >2 competing offline clients?  This is *not* an easy
>problem to solve.

The sync algorithm is explained here:

        http://offlineimap.org/howitworks.html

And for how it works for competing clients ... well, I guess it depends
on _how_ they are competing.  The challenge that pops out at me is how
to maintain a mapping between nmh message numbers and IMAP message
identifiers.  Looks like there's a database backend that does that at
least for Maildir.

Please let us know what you find out about it!  I don't know Python, but
I'd be willing to learn.

--Ken