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Imap proxies aren't just a question of conf files. Email today should be a no-brainer really. Its a hobby to configure mutt.

by tiben_ 4y ago

mvanbaak 4y ago
You dont need imap proxies. If you want your email locally: Use offlineimap to grab the email for example. There are many ways to connect. If not: there are a lot of python/bash scripts to make imap/whatever work with mutt Almost all of them use configuration files that can be stored in git/svn/csv/etc
- tiben_ 4y ago
  offlineimap is what a used. But now i don't have time for the configuration of this. seems today pretty archaic.
  - mvanbaak 4y ago
    I configured mine only on the days I switched jobs. Copy one entry to a new one, changed name, changed password/oauth keys and ran `git add .dotfiles/offlineimap.conf && git commit -m "new work email configs" && git push` and call it a day. This is less time than I spend with ANY other program I use at a new job
    - tiben_ 4y ago
      How many time you spent the first time you digged into theses tools ? i'm sorry but i'm ready to spend huge amount of time to learn tools like GCC or anything else that's complex. Not for sending mail.
- cycomanic 4y ago
  The thing about offlineimap and isync (which I prefer because it is significantly faster in my experience) is they work great until they don't. I originally switched from offlineimap to isync, because of some bug (might have been offlineimap or exchange IMAP support, I don't recall) which caused some email loss. Just this week I had to deal with some isync issue which causes the sync to duplicate mails when uploading to the server. I still haven't figured out what's going on, I'm getting Keywords not supported errors from the server when syncing, which caused this. It happened once before and I had to wipe the whole directory and resync to fix it. I am now looking at what other solution to use. I used to use muttator which was a plugin for thunderbird that emulated mutt behavior and was great, but that hasn't been maintained for >7 years

Imap proxies aren't just a question of conf files. Email today should be a no-brainer really. Its a hobby to configure mutt.

by tiben_ 4y ago

Imap proxies aren't just a question of conf files. Email today should be a no-brainer really. Its a hobby to configure mutt.

mvanbaak 4y ago

You dont need imap proxies. If you want your email locally: Use offlineimap to grab the email for example. There are many ways to connect. If not: there are a lot of python/bash scripts to make imap/whatever work with mutt Almost all of them use configuration files that can be stored in git/svn/csv/etc

tiben_ 4y ago
offlineimap is what a used. But now i don't have time for the configuration of this. seems today pretty archaic.
- mvanbaak 4y ago
  I configured mine only on the days I switched jobs. Copy one entry to a new one, changed name, changed password/oauth keys and ran `git add .dotfiles/offlineimap.conf && git commit -m "new work email configs" && git push` and call it a day. This is less time than I spend with ANY other program I use at a new job
  - tiben_ 4y ago
    How many time you spent the first time you digged into theses tools ? i'm sorry but i'm ready to spend huge amount of time to learn tools like GCC or anything else that's complex. Not for sending mail.
cycomanic 4y ago
The thing about offlineimap and isync (which I prefer because it is significantly faster in my experience) is they work great until they don't. I originally switched from offlineimap to isync, because of some bug (might have been offlineimap or exchange IMAP support, I don't recall) which caused some email loss. Just this week I had to deal with some isync issue which causes the sync to duplicate mails when uploading to the server. I still haven't figured out what's going on, I'm getting Keywords not supported errors from the server when syncing, which caused this. It happened once before and I had to wipe the whole directory and resync to fix it. I am now looking at what other solution to use. I used to use muttator which was a plugin for thunderbird that emulated mutt behavior and was great, but that hasn't been maintained for >7 years