That way you can separate out stuff into priority buckets *before* it has to be downloaded. In SummaryįWIW, I find it useful to deliver to a set of folders (using procmail and SpamAssassin) on the server. It makes me a little sad that nobody's ever been able to get it working well and efficiently. Why didn't I do this a few years ago? Probably because the promise of IMAP is so damned appealing. It is backed up regularly and I've got a copy of everything in my Gmail account as well. I can then manipulate it to my heart's content on the client and worry not about things going wrong.

I just download all my mail and go offline when I need to. The upside is that the broken IMAP sync never happens. The downside is that when I switch from using Thunderbird to Gmail and back (happens once in a while for short periods of time), I may see some messages twice. Periodically, I make sure to archive mail in my GMail account, flag the obvious spam, etc. I use Thunderbird on the Windows notebook that Yahoo provides me. It also archives a copy on the server in monthly mbox files. Then it sends a copy to GMail and delivers one locally. Exim hands it off to procmail, which runs it thru SpamAssassin. Email addressed to comes to my mail server. So I've replaced my lofty goals of using IMAP so that I could keep mail organized on my server but accessible anywhere. My needs were simple, but I'd yet to find a tool that would Just Work.

Yes, all of them-especially when used for off-line or disconnection operation. After a long drawn out experience with numerous email clients (mutt/isync, mutt/mailsync, Thunderbird, Eudora, Mail.app, even Outlook Express in a moment of desperation) on various platforms (Mac, Windows, Linux, FreeBSD) and spanning over four years, I've come to the inevitable conclusion that all IMAP clients suck.

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