isync (mbsync) Reviews and details

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• Imapsync

  Instead of migrating from server to server — and remaining on computers I don’t own - I download locally which it looks this tool doesn’t do. I use mbsync/isync which is fast and reliable. https://isync.sourceforge.io/. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Seeking Advice on Backing Up Emails from External Email Providers - Not Hosting

  There are also isync and OfflineIMAP which sync email locally. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Suggestions for long term email storage

  I set up mbsync to mirror the current (last 90 days) of my Fastmail IMAP account into another local Maildir, and told Notmuch to index that as well. This ensures a Notmuch search will cover both current & archived messages. Source: almost 2 years ago

• What's the benefit of using an email client?

  On my notebook I went full-on nerd and read and write emails mostly in the Emacs text editor. In particular I use isync to fetch emails via imap (that's independent from Emacs) and the Emacs extension mu4e to view, write and send emails. It's not something I recommend if you're not used to working with code and not using Emacs anyway, but for me it makes sense, since emails are just text and Emacs is good with... Source: about 2 years ago

• How to run a script to cleanup emails ?

  Myself, I keep a local copy of my mail using isync/mbsync. This allows me to use mutt and notmuch on my mail, or even just plain old grep. Granted, this also means you'll have to download your 30GB mailbox locally. Personally, I consider this a feature, as it gives me a local backup. Source: about 2 years ago

• mu4e html view render

  I don't know what this means, but my setup assumes mail is in ~/Maildir. However you get your mail into this directory doesn't matter. I use IMAP and https://isync.sourceforge.io. Source: over 2 years ago

• The next time Wikipedia asks for a donation, ignore it

  Mbsync (part of the isync utilities) - https://isync.sourceforge.io/ Use Davmail to create a standard IMAP interface to O365, then use mbsync to poll your email account via the Davmail IMAP server and write the messages to a maildir that you can read with most any MUA. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Mail-Client with Web Interface

  The final part is a mail retrieval agent, which is responsible for downloading mail from your remote mailbox(es), and delivering it to your local IMAP server. I'm currently using isync for this, but getmail or fetchmail are good options as well. Source: over 2 years ago

• Integrating with Fastmail (New Fastmail API)

  Put everything into a single notmuchmail database. It wil deduplicate the emails and even provide a fast local search interface for all of your mails https://notmuchmail.org/ For gmail you can use lieer to pull everything https://github.com/gauteh/lieer (tho it can take hours to pull ewerything). Fastmail has a similar tool https://github.com/elizagamedev/mujmap If you unpack tour mbox into maildir then you can... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• mutt folder

  Do you use it for local mailbox/maildir, or do you have IMAP (directly via setting imap_user and so on or synced via isync or something like that)? If the latter, your folder names come from the server and you should change them there. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Coming up with a home-rolled email solution.

  So this component would use a tool like isync (https://isync.sourceforge.io/) to pull all the emails from each gsuite email account, and store them in individual folders aggregated into one offline imap account for archival search. Source: about 3 years ago

• mbsync, SASL and Gmail

  I was just trying to set up mbsync to work with Gmail. I'd got most of the config copied from another provider, but kept getting an error about an invalid parameter:. - Source: dev.to / about 3 years ago

• IMAP-backup: Backup Gmail (or other IMAP) accounts to disk

  I use isync/mbsync (isync is the project name, mbsync is the executable name): https://isync.sourceforge.io/. - Source: Hacker News / over 3 years ago

• Ask HN: Is There an IMAP2Git?

  [3]: https://isync.sourceforge.io/. - Source: Hacker News / over 3 years ago

• A ventilation on the state of DAV supported terminal calendars and such.

  As for mail, I'm currently using Neomutt, with isync (unrelated to Apple) for offline IMAP storage and msmtp for SMTP. It's fantastic and does everything I want, including PGP signing and encryption, but there's a bit of a learning curve and it definitely isn't an all-in-one solution (i.e. You need to combine it with other apps/tools). It can be a bit daunting to set up, but there is a wizard script that can do... Source: over 3 years ago

• Looking for an email client with support for tags

  I have it setup against my maildir that syncs with https://isync.sourceforge.io. Source: over 3 years ago

• Email on offline Palms

  On my laptop I have an offline-first email setup using mbsync with Maildirs to read mail, and for sending sending email with msmtp. I figured this setup would be perfect for getting email set up on a Palm: provider-agnostic (no outlook 2003-specific integration), all standard file formats, and very simple operation—just copy emails from the new directory in the Maildir to the Palm to read inbox, and pipe outgoing... Source: over 3 years ago