On 16Oct2020 16:20, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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.
Local email lets me read and respond while offline, such as on a train.
And it is so much faster :-)
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs(a)cskk.id.au>