On 10/10/2015 13:22, Timothy Murphy wrote:
I spend time in two places, in different countries.
I have a local network in each place,
with IMAP servers on each network.
I collect email by fetchmail from various servers,
and read email on my laptop with KMail.
I tried using just one IMAP server, but this proved impractical.
So I have two collections of the same sub-folders, on the two servers.
I have two questions:
1. Is there a simpler way of organizing my email?
Why was it impractical? Remote access to a single IMAP server in one
location ought to be possible. We spend extended periods in several
countries. I keep all my email (collected via fetchmail/exim) on an IMAP
server (dovecot) at home and it's never been a problem to access it
remotely from different countries and different devices.
2. Given the current method, is there a way of syncronizing folders
on the two servers?
If you are using plain maildir, then I think you could just use rsync to
synchronise the two sets of folders and files. I guess you would need to
exclude from the rsync operation the dovecot-specific files (indexes and
so forth) and allow dovecot to update these itself to reflect the new
state of each set of stored messages.
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John Allen
Bofferdange, Luxembourg
al...@vo.lu
