On 10/16/20 12:48 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 12:14:13 -0700 Samuel Sieb
<samuel(a)sieb.net> wrote:
> On 10/16/20 8:34 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
>> On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 16:20:27 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan
<pocallaghan(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> Thanks, Patrick! True, but I want my e-mail stored and acted upon locally. In
that case, I do not completely see a way out of my situation, though there are likely
alternative approaches to the same problem.
>
> I run my own mail server, so all the emails are in my house which is
> local enough. I access my email from many devices, so this keeps them
> all in sync. dovecot does some initial email sorting for me and all the
> devices download the emails so they're available offline if necessary.
Thanks :-) But my employer provides my e-mail that I need to use for professional
reasons, otherwise I would likely be making different/simpler choices.
Ok, but my other point was that mail clients like Thunderbird can be
configured to download all the emails, so they are available locally and
offline. Then you have the benefits of your POP/fetchmail config
without the risky syncing methods. I just realized though that I forgot
you were using mutt which doesn't have that capability. However,
there's an application called offlineimap which might work for you.