On Fri, Oct 31, 2025 at 12:15:55PM +0100, Oswald Buddenhagen via isync-devel wrote:
why are you insisting on shoehorning isync into doing something it was not designed for?
For one, I've been using isync for years and I have a lot of different systems set up using it. Isync works great and I know my configuration works. If I have to change over to Fetchmail then that's a massive headache.
just use fetchmail, as i suggested in my first response.
Fetchmail is, as far as I can tell, fundamentally different from isync. I can't just write a script to convert my .mbsyncrc into a .fetchmailrc and then have it drop mail into the same Maildir. It looks like I have to set up fetchmail to deliver to procmail for every account, and then have procmail write out to the Maildir. What's more, I can't find any documentation for this workflow, just bits and pieces. That suggests I'm going to run into hidden gotchas and more headaches. So if I can stick to isync (fast, functional) instead of building up a whole new system (hic sunt dracones) that's obviously preferable. _______________________________________________ isync-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/isync-devel
