On 12/16/16, Philip Hands phil@hands.com wrote:
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl@lkcl.net writes:
after trying for 90 minutes to connect to accounts.google.com last night, with over twenty refreshes, finally obtaining just the HTML of a page then having to spend ANOTHER hour just to get the matching CSS... only to run into HTTP proxy problems and having to clear the cache and DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN....
... i'm absolutely sick and tired of the fucking fucked internet here, how it's interfering with my ability to communicate, get source code and much more.
so, i'm converting to offline imap, setting up the "prayer webmail" client, a cyrus imap server, and syncing everything to my laptop now i have the spare space on the 500GB SSD.
If you can deal with emacs, have a look at notmuch
i remember you mentioning it a few years ago, so yes, i installed it in preparation, a few days ago. only did cyrus last night so haven't got round to configuring it
Even if you cannot -- you should probably have a look at notmuch (there's a vim-based thingumy, and there are other front ends too)
yeah i decided to go with the web-based front-end, it seems sane and like prayer-webmail-imap-client doesn't depend on php...
we may actually have to go stay in a hotel in hong kong (where they have a 100 mbytes / sec internet connection) just so i can sync all the email.
If you point notmuch at that it'll say something like:
523,567 mails, that's not much mail...
:)
and you'll be able to do similar searchy things to what you probably got used to with google.
goooood
I tend to shunt my inbox into an archive directory so that I can use dumb imap on my phone and not need to fill the phone with 110k of mails,
yehhh the whole reason i started using gmail was because i'd had HDDs die, i had several gig of maildirs, not enough space: when i started with SSDs the capacity was just far too small. now it's up to sane amounts.
but I know I've got more mail than you're talking about, and searches return useful results in sub-second mostly.
faantastic. yeah i can't remember what the dependency was for the indexing but i've seen it used before and it's pretty damn good.
% find ./Maildir -type f | wc -l 559007 % du -hs Maildir 12G Maildir
frickin mad, innit? :)
l.