On July 16, 2025 5:09:57 PM GMT+02:00, Marton Balazs <balm...@gmail.com> wrote: >I use three different machines and sync all my email between them by >rsync >over SSH, so as files rather than via isync. When I boot up a machine I >rsync down all files, including hundreds of thousands of email, from my >home server. Some of these emails I only have as maildir files, they >are >not even on any IMAP server. I make sure dot files are synced too, and >deletions of files also propagate. Once the rsync logs are ok I then >launch >isync to Google and M365 for those mail folders that are on there as >well. >Before closing down the machine I rsync everything, including all >email, to >the home ssh server. Next day I sit at another machine and do the same. >This has worked reliably for me for several years, the important thing >is >to make sure everything is rsynced with no errors before isync is >launched >to my email providers. This is not exactly answering your question >though... > >Best wishes >Marton > >On Wed, 16 Jul 2025, 08:41 Peter P., <peterpar...@fastmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi list, >> >> (this might be slightly-OT) >> >> my employer is forcing me to host all emails, that are older than X >> years, somewhere else than on his IMAP server. I am using multiple >> clients and isync. I am now thinking of moving certain imap folders >from >> the employer's server to some network storage, which would only be >> accessible through ssh/scp/rsync but not through the imap protocol. >> >> Can isync sync emails through such connections as well? >> Is the "Tunnel" commenad the way to go? >> >> Thanks for all ideas and advice! >> Peter >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> isync-devel mailing list >> isync-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/isync-devel >>
Interesting approach. Which mail client(s) do you then use on the different machines? Am I correct that the mail client(s) accesses the local mail storage on the desktop rather than your mail server? How do you handle the mail accounts on phones/tablets? Why did you choose approach? It would seem to me that the mail clients on e.g. a phone and the desktop you are currently using will be out of sync? _______________________________________________ isync-devel mailing list isync-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/isync-devel
