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mutt+offlineimap

Posted Jun 18, 2004 15:18 UTC (Fri) by vmole (guest, #111)
In reply to: mutt by rfunk
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's guide to mail clients: introduction

You might find offlineimap useful. It's syncs (in both directions) between local Maildirs and remote IMAP. This lets you use mutt locally, yet still get a consistent view of your mail via the IMAP server when you need it. Here's a Linux Journal article about it by the author.

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mutt+offlineimap

Posted Jun 20, 2004 1:34 UTC (Sun) by jwb (guest, #15467) [Link]

The author will probably come out of nowhere and flame me, but whenever I see a recommendation for offlineimap, I feel compelled to mention that, on two different occassions, offlineimap completely destroyed all my IMAP mailboxes and forced me to restore from backups. The author seems more interested in writing weird python user interface wrappers than in fixing the architectural defect which allows offlineimap to screw up majorly.

mutt+offlineimap

Posted Jun 21, 2004 14:53 UTC (Mon) by BigNachos (subscriber, #1867) [Link]

I don't think I've ever seen John flame someone, so I wouldn't worry about that.

Have you reported your problems to him? I'm sure he would be very interested to hear about them.