e-mail sync options?

[Ben Eisenbraun]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 11:14:59AM -0400, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
> _What I want_:
> 
> I'd like to be able to offline have access to my entire e-mail store
> from all devices--be able to search through and read messages, write
> messages and queue them for sending, move messages between folders,
> set/change flags on messages--and then have everything sync-up every
> which way when I go online: I want messages that have been queued for
> sending to be sent, I want messages that were already in the store(s)
> to have changes to their flags propagated, and I want new inbound
> messages to be retrieved and cached locally. Basically, I want
> everything mirrored everywhere, and I don't want to have to think
> about *where* something last changed.

This is what OfflineIMAP was written for:

http://wiki.github.com/jgoerzen/offlineimap/

Here's an old Linux Journal article by the author talking about why he
wrote and walking through some initial set up:

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7232

Have fun.  :-)

-ben

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