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, 18 Jan 2021 22:30:25 +0100

To: David Bremner, Jorge P. de Morais Neto, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: Tomas Nordin


David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:

> Jorge P. de Morais Neto <jorge+list@disroot.org> writes:
>
>> Em [2021-01-15 sex 13:41:50-0400], David Bremner escreveu:
>>
>>> I have used imap-dl (from mailscripts) and getmail6 for unidirectional
>>> fetching.  I was happy with imap-dl, but I switched back to getmail6
>>> because I needed non-ssl imap (for complicated reasons involving
>>> Microsoft).
>>
>> I am sorry for the basic question, but what exactly do you mean by
>> /unidirectional/ fetching?
>
> I mean I download mail from the server and immediately delete it.
>
>> I want to synchronize my account on Disroot's IMAP server with my local
>> Maildir.  IMAP flag changes as well as message removals and movement
>> between folders on one end should be synchronized with the other end.
>> Personal e-mail usage.
>>
>> Is Getmail6 or imap-dl your recommendation for my scenario?
>
> Probably not.

But why not though? imap-dl is doing a one-way fetch I think? But
Getmail6 seem to claim all sorts of features...
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