On Fri, 2020-10-16 at 08:44 -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
As I said in the other response, the reason for how I set things up,
and that has worked reasonably well, is that I read e-mail at work and home, but the work
machine is the one that I consider to be reliably backed up. It is also bigger in terms of
disk. So what happens is that I fetchmail with keep, process e-mail at work using sylpheed
and then fire up my home machine (a laptop) and fetchmail with keep from the POP server
and the rsync it down (including the .sylpheed_mark and .sylpheed_cache). Then I work on
the home machine, continue to fetchmail process e-mails, etc with sylpheed and when I am
done (before I hibernate), I rsync it all up before I go back to work, so that when I go
to the other (work) machine, I have the same status as I left at home/work. Of course, I
need to be careful and vigilant for the reasons you alluded to.
TBH I long ago gave up trying to juggle multiple machines and syncing
mail. I just use IMAP and let somebody else worry about it. In fact I'd
do that even if I was the somebody else, as I once used to be. People
say there are reasons for using POP, and perhaps there are for some
people, but frankly I've never been convinced by any of them.
Just my 2p.
poc