Re: udev and devfs - The final word

[Vojtech Pavlik]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 03:11:44PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 12:15:56PM +0100, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> > 
> > Mutt with IMAP is rather bearable even on a GPRS connection (40kbps,
> > 1sec latency). On a 100baseTX it's not distinguishable from local
> > operation.
> 
> Hmm... I've tried using mutt/IMAP over GPRS connection, and I find it
> extremely unpleasant, myself.  My solution is to use isync to provide
> a local cached copy of the IMAP server on my laptop, and then run mutt
> against the local cached copy.  
> 
> I have a patch to isync which allows it to issue multiple IMAP
> commands in parallel (instead of operating in lockstep fashion):
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi//tmp/async-imap-patch?bug=226222&msg=3&att=1
> 
> With this patch, isync works very well, even over high latency, slow
> speed links.

That looks very nice. Now, if there were a way how to make the isync
IMAP connections go over a compressed ssh link (like I'm doing with
Mutt/IMAP) that'd be very cool.

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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