On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 05:22:12PM +0000, Jorge wrote: > Hi. I use OfflineIMAP 7.1.5+dfsg1-1 on an updated installation of Debian > buster. I have configured it on my work desktop; my work e-mail account works > fine with notmuch-emacs. My personal Disroot account does not work because my > workplace blocks external IMAP. Now I want to access both accounts from other > devices – especially my notebook running Ubuntu 16.04.4 with OfflineIMAP 7.1.5 > installed via Guix. I suppose there is no need to share the local folder of > my > work e-mail account, because it is already synchronized with the respective > IMAP > server. But:
> 1. What about OfflineIMAP’s metadata folders? Should I share them between > devices with ownCloud? As soon as you want to sync email with offlineimap on different devices you must make sure to: - have both the maildirs AND metadata shared and fully synced; - keep offlineimap versions the exact same at any time. > 2. What about my personal Disroot account? Since I can’t access external IMAP > from my workplace, should I synchronize it with my notebook when I am home, > and keep the respective OfflineIMAP local folder on ownCloud, which I could > then access from my workplace? The obvious limitation is that I would > still > be unable to send or receive new e-mails from my workplace via Disroot. The metadata folder is not required where the offlineimap command won't run. > 3. Are there special considerations or non-obvious issues? Besides the versions of offlineimap, no. > I have searched the web but not found the answer, and Gmane gives me error > messages when I try to search this mailing list's archives. Help will be > appreciated. You're welcome. -- Nicolas Sebrecht _______________________________________________ OfflineIMAP-project mailing list: [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/offlineimap-project OfflineIMAP homepages: - https://github.com/OfflineIMAP - http://offlineimap.org
