I use isync/mbsync[1], probably available via your package manager. It's a utility that can sync between IMAP and Maildirs. So, I just sync each account to subd

I use isync/mbsync[1], probably available via your package manager. It's a utility that can sync between IMAP and Maildirs. So, I just sync each account to subdirectories in ~/mail/ and my email client views my emails from there instead of connecting itself to the IMAP server. [1] http://isync.sourceforge.net http://isync.sourceforge.net