e-mail sync options?

[Bill McGonigle]

On 08/30/2010 11:14 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
> I've tried Thunderbird, and it doesn't look like a viable option--
> partly because I can't stand the lousy built-in text-editor
> (though I guess there are extensions that'll kluge-in support
> for spawning an external editor), and because it doesn't have
> any functionality for cleaning-up the broken formatting in some
> of the messages that I receive (Gnus does). Its Maildir support
> is also even worse than Gnus' (there is none!)

I use Thunderbird against an IMAP server for what mostly seems like the 
same problem, but perhaps I misunderstand.  For instance:

Why do you need Maildir on your remote machines?  I know why it's 
important on the server, but all I ever do with offline mode in 
Thunderbird is read, reply, and sort messages.

What kind of broken messages are you getting?  I don't have this 
particular problem, but perhaps one of my server-side mail filters is 
doing clean-up for me.  Fixing messages before they get to you might 
make more sense than worrying about it offline.  procmail/formail/etc.

I don't seem to find myself needing emacs in mail windows, but I do have 
an extension or two to tweak the editor's behavior - there may be ones 
that scratch your same itch.  Offline mode seems to work really well in 
3.1, finally, except you still have to manually trigger a send (it 
doesn't do it when it finds network) and IMAP folder delete isn't 
supported.

-Bill

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