-----Original Message----- From: Kazuo Teramoto [mailto:kaz....@gmail.com] Sent: Tue 12/13/2011 13:22 To: Ralf Mardorf; arch-general@archlinux.org Subject: Re: [arch-general] offlineimap On 2011-12-12T22:29:56, Ralf Madorf wrote: >I suspect that offlineimap isn't what I need for the wanted task: > >- to download emails from my providers server >- to delete them from the server when the download is finished >- to keep them on my computer, to get access to the emails from > different Linux installs >
I think that for 1 and 2 (download and delete) you can use getmail with pop3 and 'delete = true' option. +++ That's the way it's usually done. --- I never used like this but from the documentation [1] I think this do the intended. For 3 is "different Linux installs" on same computer? If so, you can simple use the same maildir. If not you can share the maildir via imap. [1]: http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/configuration.html +++ At the moment Kmail and Evolution can't use the maildir generated by offlineimap. Some mailers aren't able to use maildir, there are tricks to use e.g. equal versions of thunderbird with their mail format. I guess I need something that download mail from my providers server and that provides IMAP on my computer. Yes, several installs on the same machine. I guess what I need is a IMAP server on my machine that gets the mails from my provider, will delete them there and the mail clienets on my machine sync on my machine by IMAP. Hm? Since maildir is a new format for Evolution I should test if it now is able to share it's maildir format by several Evolution mailers. In the past Evolution couldn't import it's own mails from backups without hacking :D. Thanks, Ralf
