Re: Please share recommendations of mail fetcher for notmuch on GNU

Subject: Re: Please share recommendations of mail fetcher for notmuch on GNU

Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2021 17:41:47 -0800

To: Kian Kasad, Jorge P. de Morais Neto

Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org

From: Mark Janes


Kian Kasad <kian@kasad.com> writes:

> On 21/01/15 02:27PM, Jorge P. de Morais Neto wrote:
>> Hi.  I currently use OfflineIMAP on Python2.  However, I want to upgrade
>> Debian to bullseye, which has no security support for Python2, and
>> OfflineIMAP's Python3 port is very recent and I fear it is buggy.  Could
>> you then share your recommendation of mail fetcher for notmuch on a GNU
>> OS?
>
> I use and recommend the mbsync utility from the isync project:
> https://isync.sourceforge.io/

+1 for isync.  I chose it after speaking to several users that tried
other alternatives first.

> It will do bidirectional syncing and is very easy to set up. I've been
> using it for many months and have never had a problem with it. It only
> supports Maildir as the local storage medium, and the server must be
> IMAP4 compliant, however.
>
> --
> Kian Kasad
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