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Checkout offlineimap. Mutt can then use the synched directory from offlineimap.

• masklinn 7y ago
  offlineimap is cron-driven though, so it doesn't fetch mail "as soon as it arrives". I don't know that any offline-sync daemons uses IDLE though. isync / mbsync doesn't seem to either.
  • cbcoutinho 7y ago
    I use a systemd timer to handle periodic calls to offlineimap, and that works really well compared to a corn-based work flow.
    • masklinn 7y ago
      systemd timers are a cron-based workflow. A cron-based workflow is when you periodically check for work to do rather than get notified that there's work to do.
      • cbcoutinho 7y ago
        Yes that's true that they periodically check for work to do, but cron is not smart enough to know whether a service is already running - a systemd-timer can base it's timer from the point when a service completes. I think cron just fires up a service unless you build in some logic to check if it's running
        • JdeBP 7y ago
          That's not really relevant. masklinn is contrasting periodic polling schemes like yours with using IDLE.
  • naniwaduni 7y ago
    offlineimap does have IDLE support. It's known to exhibit hard-to-reproduce bugs, though.
    • masklinn 7y ago
      > IDLE support is incomplete and experimental. Bugs may be encountered. That's not "have IDLE support".
  • rakoo 7y ago
    I wrote my own IMAP IDLE watcher (https://github.com/rakoo/ https://github.com/rakoo/). It only watches for IDLE events, all the actual mail retrieval is done by offlineimap. It's simplistic but it does (did) the job.