Re: elmo-use-database?

[David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>]

At Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:35:30 -0500,
Ron Isaacson wrote:
> 
> Per B. Sederberg wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Ron Isaacson
> > <Ron.Isaacson@morganstanley.com> wrote:
> > > Per B.Sederberg wrote:
> > >>
> > >> At Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:25:26 -0500,
> > >> David Abrahams wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> > At Tue, 5 Jan 2010 14:48:05 -0500,
> > >> > Per B. Sederberg wrote:
> > >> How does it work in gnus to visit a server-side maildir folder, which
> > >> you have populated with that server-side mairix call?  Not that it's
> > >> ideal or anything, but could you mount that search folder locally with
> > >> sshfs and point mairix.el at it?
> > >
> > > Or run a small dovecot instance to expose your search folder...
> > >
> > 
> > Yes, if you have the ability to install anything on that server, this
> > would be even better and probably would be faster because imap in WL
> > is wicked-fast.
> 
> You don't even really need to "install" it. Assuming there are no
> policy restrictions, you can build it in your homedir and run it on a
> non-priv port. Before I had good filesystem connectivity between the
> different clients where I ran wl, I ran dovecot on the same server as
> fetchmail, and used IMAP from all of the other clients.

I don't think I even have to do that.  My mail on the server is kept
in ~/Maildir, and if I have mairix put its folder there, I should be
able to visit it straightforwardly with WL.

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