OfflineIMAP VS getmail

OfflineIMAP

OfflineImap synchronizes email between an IMAP server and a MailDir or between two IMAP servers.

getmail

Official website for getmail version 5, an extensible mail-retrieval program with support for POP3, IMAP, SDPS, SSL, domain mailboxes, message filtering, and other features.

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2023-04-16

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2020-01-27

mutt Email + OfflineIMAP and msmtp - See your email offline!

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to OfflineIMAP and getmail)

getmail

Email Migration

73 73%

Email Migration

27% 27

Email Management

72 72%

Email Management

28% 28

File Management

76 76%

File Management

24% 24

Monitoring Tools

62 62%

Monitoring Tools

38% 38

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, getmail seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 3 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

OfflineIMAP mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of OfflineIMAP yet. Tracking of OfflineIMAP recommendations started around Mar 2021.

getmail mentions (3)

Ask HN: What do you use to backup email?
I'm using getmail (https://pyropus.ca./software/getmail/) as a cronjob every night to download it all and then sync with an offsite backup. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
Selfhosted Web Mail with Pop3, local Storage and one Account for all
From there, I run a self-implementation of getmail inside of a Docker container to automatically fetch/copy my e-mails from various POP/IMAP providers on a regular (5-minute) interval. Getmail is incredibly flexible, and allows me to delete e-mail upon fetch for personal accounts, leave mail on the server for "shared accounts", etc. Source: over 2 years ago
Pipeable email client?
I have used a utility called getmail for a couple of decades. Except for the json part, it seems to do what you want... Source: almost 3 years ago