10 Oct
2015
10 Oct
'15
2:46 p.m.
On 10/10/2015 13:22, Timothy Murphy wrote:
I spend time in two places, in different countries. I have a local network in each place, with IMAP servers on each network. I collect email by fetchmail from various servers, and read email on my laptop with KMail.
I tried using just one IMAP server, but this proved impractical. So I have two collections of the same sub-folders, on the two servers.
I have two questions:
- Is there a simpler way of organizing my email? Why was it impractical? Remote access to a single IMAP server in one location ought to be possible. We spend extended periods in several countries. I keep all my email (collected via fetchmail/exim) on an IMAP server (dovecot) at home and it's never been a problem to access it remotely from different countries and different devices.
- Given the current method, is there a way of syncronizing folders on the two servers? If you are using plain maildir, then I think you could just use rsync to synchronise the two sets of folders and files. I guess you would need to exclude from the rsync operation the dovecot-specific files (indexes and so forth) and allow dovecot to update these itself to reflect the new state of each set of stored messages.
-- John Allen Bofferdange, Luxembourg allen@vo.lu