Syncing emails from external server like Gmail

Robert Schetterer rs at sys4.de
Mon Jul 13 17:01:27 EEST 2020


Am 13.07.2020 um 11:23 schrieb Vitalii:
> On Mon, 13 Jul 2020 10:50:09 +0200
> Robert Schetterer <rs at sys4.de> wrote:
> 
>> perhaps this help
>>
>> getmail should use /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver
> 
> That is what I used before and wanted to switch off. Here is the 2 main
> reasons:
>   1) It add extra header overhead similar to: Received by localost at
>   time, etc....)
>   2) It put emails in local delivery queue so syncing becomes slow.
>   3) only backup, no syncing back.
> 
>>
>> https://blog.sys4.de/abholdienst-fur-mail-de.html
>>
>> and/or imapsync is your friend
> Don't know about imapsync but I believe it has the same disadvantages
> as it isn't native dovecot.
>>
>> https://blog.sys4.de/mail-migration-mit-imapsync-de.html
>>
> 
  its pure imap fetching, and it works like charme

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