* Ray Van Dolson <rvandol...@esri.com> [20.08.2013. @12:03:35 -0700]:

> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 08:56:40PM +0200, Christoph Möbius wrote:
> > > Do any one have any inputs or caveats in store the Maildir folders on 
> > > dropbox
> > > to sync them between different computers?
> >
> > Since you sent via gmail, I assume you want to access your Google mails from
> > different machines. Why don't you just access your mails via IMAP instead of
> > POP?. The mails would still reside on the server side and you can access 
> > them
> > from wherever you are.
> 
> I do this and it works pretty well.  The biggest downside from the mutt
> perspective is latency -- especially when using imaps to talk to Google
> (which of course you're doing, right??).
> 
> I've found using stunnel as a shim to talk imaps to Google and provide
> regular imap locally to mutt helps things feel a little "quicker".
> Have also considered writing a Python script to pre-populate the mutt
> header cache periodically so that when you load up mutt you aren't
> sitting there waiting for it to read through a large number of new
> messages' headers.
> 
> Ray

Why not using offlineimap with a cron to retrieve emails (and to avoid
the latency)? It is very easy and efficient. I a using offlineimap on
all of my computers/servers, or I simply ssh my server where Mutt is
installed.

The idea of using dropbox to synchronize emails from gmail looks crazy.
I would never give my data to such a company/service. Emails are
particularly important: they basically contain all my life!
If you really want to synchronize your computers without the ad-hoc
tool, you can try to rsync your Maildir. But I definitively prefer
offlineimap.

Regards,

JC

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