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I’d love to see a setup where I could keep the emails on a Linux box in the house (the messages are fetched regularly from the “real” email server), you know wh
by eu 5y ago
I’d love to see a setup where I could keep the emails on a Linux box in the house (the messages are fetched regularly from the “real” email server), you know what I mean?
Sending would probably be easier ( use a real smtp server)…
- TimWolla 5y agoNeither a mutt, nor an offlineimap user, but I believe those two are often used in combination: http://www.offlineimap.org/ http://www.offlineimap.org/
- nulbyte 5y agoI use mbsync (formerly isync) to synchronize multiple external mailboxes to a local Maildir store. I use it with mu4e, but it'd work fine with mutt or any other client that supports Maildir. https://isync.sourceforge.io/ https://isync.sourceforge.io/
- rjzzleep 5y agoI second this. I used offlineimap for a long time, but isync(mbsync) is soooooo much faster at syncing mail.
- superluserdo 5y agoI pair this with imapnotify (keeps a constant connection to each of the IMAP servers for the email addresses I have) that calls mbsync the moment I get a new email. It was a bit annoying to set up at the time but now my (neo)mutt client updates pretty much instantly with any new email.
- rvense 5y agoI use offlineimap with bower[0], it works well. [0] https://github.com/wangp/bower https://github.com/wangp/bower
- Taywee 5y agoSounds like something you'd use getmail, fetchmail, or another mail retrieval agent for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getmail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getmail
- mixedmath 5y agogetmail, fetchmail, and offlineimap all work well for this. I currently use getmail and offlineimap (on different boxes) to fetch emails over IMAP, and configure mutt to use my usual smtp to send.