Eric, Christoph, Thanks to both of you for your replies.
Christoph, can you please clarify a few things? > Hello, are you aware of the solution where dovecot is run locally > on-demand (there’s no daemon) and stores mail in Maildir format? "On demand" means that dovecot would potentially be run many times over, i.e. every time the user wants to check his mail? Does this also mean that dovecot would connect to the IMAP server(s) repeatedly (rather than once per session)? > Email is fetched with an IMAP-to-IMAP synchronizer like mbsync from the > isync package. Assume that dovecot has mirrored all my e-mails locally. Now, I could, theoretically, point GNUS directly to that storage. This seems to be all I need. So, where does mbsync come in? > Other email clients can either access the Maildir directly, or talk to > the local dovecot like Gnus or the sync program. Same as above: how does the syncing program fit into this setup? Many thanks.
