On Sat, 10 May 2014, patrick295767 patrick295767 wrote: > Over the years I was commonly using Mutt (probably as you too...). > > Offlineimap is a reliable (well, more or less) to fetch email and get > them to work offline. > > However... I would be really pleased to find another C programm (+ a > config for imap/smtp) that would replace OfflineImap.
It took a while but I eventually found a satisfactory solution to two-way mail sync (ie. offline mail reading and writing on my laptop) using dovecot and it's dsync process. I did not need to install a full dovecot IMAP server (although maybe I will have to do that to support an Android phone) Instead I installed dovecot on my own account on the server: * procmail delivers to dovecot with maildir boxes * use IMAP pre-authenticated over ssh by calling libexec/dovecot/imap * sync to the laptop using dsync over ssh I still use dovecot IMAP locally on the laptop to read the local maildir, as its mailboxes are pre-indexed and much faser. Pre-authenticated IMAP is really nice, I think people forget about it. At some point I intend to document the whole setup as it took me some time to converge on this; it is alpine + dovecot + mairix + exim + some tiny scripts. -- Mark
