SyncMail v0.1 ALPHA

[Mark Giles - Workgroup Server Engineering <Mark.Giles@East>]

Due to popular demand for some sort of mail conduit for PilotManager, I have 
decided to release a conduit I wrote called SyncMail.  Since it doesn't have 
IMAP support, it will not work for some people, but hopefully some of you will 
find this useful.  More detailed information about the conduit is included 
below.

Alan has made the conduit available on the PilotManager web site at:

http://www.moshpit.org/pilotmgr/binaries/conduits/

It has also been added to the contrib directory in the PilotManager package for 
anybody doing a new download of PilotManager.  Please keep in mind that this is 
ALPHA software.

I hope you find this useful.  Please send comments and bug reports to me 
(mark.giles@xxxxxxxxxxxx).

Mark

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SyncMail is a simple Mail conduit for PilotManager.  It will synchronize mail 
from a local mailbox (or nfs-mounted mailbox) to the Pilot mail program.  It 
will also send any mail composed on the Pilot.  As mail is read or deleted on 
the workstation its status is updated on the Pilot on the next sync.  This 
update is in one direction only -- no changes are made to the mailbox on the 
workstation.

The local mailbox doesn't have to be your inbox.  Some people, especially those 
with large inboxes who don't want to synchronize the whole thing to their Pilot, 
may want to create a local mailbox and only save messages there that they want 
to have downloaded to their pilot.  Simply enter the path to this file as the 
mailbox location on the configuration screen.

This conduit will not work with IMAP -- I'll try to add some sort of IMAP 
support in a future release when I have time, but I really know nothing about 
IMAP so it may be awhile.  Keep in mind that in some places, IMAP mailboxes are 
also accessible via NFS -- if this is the case for you, SyncMail may still work 
for you.

This tool uses the mail app on the Pilot.  If your Pilot version doesn't have 
this app you're out of luck.


There are a few additional caveats regarding the status of this project:

1. This is ALPHA software.  USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!!

2. This product was designed to interoperate with the Solaris CDE mail program 
(dtmail), and I have only tested it in this environment.  It may work on other 
platforms and interoperate well with other mail readers, but I've never tried 
it.

3. My time to work on this project is limited so I may not be able to provide 
much support for this.  However, bug reports and feature requests can be sent to 
me at mark.giles@xxxxxxxxxxxx

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