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Originally Posted by reinob View Post
I'm confused now. Does the CSSU include the OfflineIMAP program?

I thought the "Offline IMAP" option in modest relates to activating the e-mail caching (provided by Tinymail). Basically this involves two patches (one in modest, one in tinymail).

But then I see these mentions of offlineimap.org, which is a completely different thing, as (1) is a separate program, (2) needs a client with Maildir support, (3) which modest doesn't have, so it requires (4) a local IMAP server.

None of that is AFAIK included with the CSSU. At least I have seen no mention of it.

So please somebody clarify this. Otherwise the "documentation" (at least the wiki) will be spreading misinformation.
Modest does provide support for maildir.

https://garage.maemo.org/plugins/wik...ls&id=9&type=g

My understanding of offlineIMAP is that it is a mail server program as well as a client. The changes to modest that were implemented would allow modest to be used as a client for that program.

In Tinymail we handle two types of "server accounts", that are important in !Modest:
  • Store accounts: represent storages of messages. !Modest uses !Tinymail implementations for !IMAP, !POP, and !Maildir storage. The storages keep references to the folders where messages are stored.
http://mat.exon.name/modest/

After reading the above link I am not sure that it is support for offlineIMAP. Without knowing the date of that page and the buglink page is 404, what he is referring to. Do you have the offline button in your account settings unpatched modest?

Perhaps this is just full support for IMAP protocol? If it is idk why it would have been labeled "offline"

Last edited by Mike Fila; 2012-01-17 at 16:05.
 

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