On 18Dec2013 20:46, Chris Down <ch...@chrisdown.name> wrote: > On 2013-12-18 13:38:27 +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > Is there some config example about how to fetch with fetchmail or mutt, > > some mails (2000) from my IMAP server to a local mbox, but without using > > a local MTA, as fetchmail normaly does? Or is this even possible with > > mutt itself (ofc with marking 2000 mails and after this storing them to > > a local folder); > > If I understood you correctly, take a look at offlineimap[0], > mailsync[1], or isync[2] (disclaimer: I have not used any except for > offlineimap, and that was a long time ago). > > 0: http://offlineimap.org/ > 1: http://mailsync.sourceforge.net/ > 2: http://isync.sourceforge.net/
Or, you could just use mutt as he asked. Invoke mutt pointed at the IMAP server and push the required keystrokes to tag every message and then save tagged messages to a local folder. Easy peasey. To help you on your way, here is my mutt invocation from my "mboxify" script which packs up a Maildir folder into an mbox folder (I use it for archiving active folders): mutt -n -F /dev/null -f "$mailbox" -e "set sort=mailbox-order; set confirmappend=no; set delete=yes; push '<tag-pattern>.<enter><tag-prefix><save-message>$mailboxtmp<enter><sync-mailbox><exit>'" For your purposes you would set $mailbox to the IMAP server and $mailboxtmp to the local folder (full file pathname to a local folder, to be unambiguous). Adapt to suit. Feel free to ask questions. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> It looked good-natured, she thought; Still it had very long claws and a great many teeth, so she felt it ought to be treated with respect.
