Hello!

I’m thinking of changing the way I sync mail to my laptop, and I have a couple questions about my intended setup.

In brief, my plan is: instead of running offlineimap against various IMAP accounts (my personal one included), I will run fetchmail on my private server, and classify mail with Sieve there.

Then I’ll run a local Dovecot on my laptop, and do a master/master replication from my personal server/account with dsync.

I have two quick questions about this (I have never used dsync before):

1. Reading the manual page, it seems that I probably want stateful synchronization (-s flag).

   Not having used it before, I’m curious about what lag I can expect. Does it compare to an IMAP IDLE/IMAP NOTIFY connection? Or is it asynchronous / with a timer?

2. I assume modifying my local Maildirs with e.g. Mutt is... a big no-no? Instead, should I always force Mutt to go through the local IMAP server?

Many thanks in advance,
-d