Eric writes: >> (d) seriously, reconsidering to use getmail >> to fetch all emails through pop3, is it good >> idea. pop3 supports or recognises only one >> directory —inbox & does it mean it will include >> spam emails in inbox? > > If you don't care about the state of the server, and would prefer to not > leave messages there, then yes I think using a pop3 mail-source might be > a better option than mbsync. You can still use nnmaildir locally, with > split rules that send incoming mail there. > > I don't use this and I don't know if pop will pull messages from > multiple folders; the docs don't mention any relevant config.
I think POP is from before mail folders on the mail server was a thing? You can also "use IMAP as POP" - instead of how IMAP was intended to be used - eg. if your mail server doesn't have POP, which is what I do: ; Get local mail, and use IMAPS as well: (setq mail-sources '((file) (imap :server "mail.koldfront.dk" :stream tls))) This downloads the email from the server and stores it locally, marking the email as deleted on the server. As far as I remember it just gets the email from INBOX per default; I do splitting locally. Yep, Gnus says: Reading incoming mail from imap... imap: Connecting to mail.koldfront.dk... Waiting for response from mail.koldfront.dk...done imap: Authenticating to ‘mail.koldfront.dk’ using ‘login’... imap: Plaintext authentication... imap: Login successful... imap: Authenticating to ‘mail.koldfront.dk’ using ‘login’...done Fetching from INBOX... nnml: Reading incoming mail (no new mail)...done See details here: https://gnus.org/manual/gnus_84.html#Mail-Sources Best regards, Adam -- "I pragmatically turn my whims into principles!" Adam Sjøgren a...@koldfront.dk