download list archive possible?

[Ken Murchison]

Timo Veith wrote:
> Am Dienstag 14 Februar 2006 15:35 schrieb Ken Murchison:
> 
>>Timo Veith wrote:
>>
>>>Hi list readers,
>>>
>>>reading and searching messages in the list archive via http is really
>>>slow. Is it possible to download the whole list archive?
>>
>>I don't believe that we have the list in mbox format for downloading,
>>but we do offer anonymous IMAP access to list archives:
>>
>>imap://cyrus.andrew.cmu.edu/archive.info-cyrus
> 
> 
> Thank you for your reply. I found the link in the wiki just a little later 
> after I wrote to the list. Sorry.
> 
> I am trying to use the program offlineimap, to download the whole archive. 
> Can you estimate how much data that will be? Is there any special time 
> prefered to do such performance consuming downloads?

The info-cyrus directory on the server is 305MB.

-- 
Kenneth Murchison
Project Cyrus Developer/Maintainer
Carnegie Mellon University