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I'm planning to move all my mailboxes to an IMAP server running on foolab.org, use offlineIMAP to sync between vader "my laptop" and naboo "foolab.org". It will also allow me to access my email from multiple computers at the same time.

I'm using mutt as my primary email client.

The big problem is offlineIMAP needs a local Maildir while I'm using mbox

I can upload the emails from mutt to the IMAP server but why do I have to redownlosd them again ? Beside, it's a lot of manual work.

I didn't really find a good mbox to maildir converter so I decided to use mutt.

I've installed Debian long ago. I wanted to write this howto since then but I had some problems with the laptop hardware I was unable to solve until today.

Now this laptop is really cool. I bought an extra gig RAM and replaced the 40 gigs harddrive with another 80 gigs one because The one equipped with it was dying.

I always had a problem with Arabic HTML emails. They don't specify the encoding.

I'm using mutt (Yes!) as my mail reader. HTML emails can be handled using lynx and a mailcap entry like this:

So, You are behind a firewall blocking the pop3 port ? No worries

Here's part of my fetchmailrc:

poll foolab.org with proto POP3
user 'XXX' there with password 'YYY' is 'ZZZ' here options ssl fetchall no rewrite

Arabic is somehow a complex language when it comes to computer processing, It requires certain capabilities from the rendering and processing engines.
I'd consider 2 things to be the most important things, BiDi and Shaping, While Shaping deals with the different forms of a letter according to its position in the word, BiDi deals with the arrangement of embedded Arabic and English words.

Discontinued

This is the first of a network programming tutorials.

I hate such theoretical boring things, So I'll just copy and paste whatever I think'd be useful.

Ok, Here's another one.

I had to bundle firefox as part of a solution we are providing.

We have a bootable CD I've buit myself.
The CD'll install all the software we want to bundle so no need for the firefox installer.

So you need to listen to midi, eh ?
I've done this under Debian testing "sarge" at thet time

apt-get install timidity

Now get the timidity.cfg from Here. That's my home server, So it might be slow, down, Or anything. Check later if you can't get it now.

Under debian this file is placed in /etc/timidity/

So, I had to do it today, Why was I afraid ? Don't ask, No answer, I don't know.
Now for the dirty work.
As usual: I'm using Debian woody.

# apt-get install spamassassin
# emacs /etc/default/spamassassin

When I installed Debian, I choose testing due to the hardware support, I Installed using the new Debian installer "Beta 4" at that time. Booting and installation went fine with no problems.

Below you'll find more details.

Hardware configuration:

• Mobile Intel Celeron 2.2
• 256 MB RAM
• 30 GB HDD
• External 3.5" 1.44 MB floppy
• CD-ROM/DVD-ROM

lspci output: