isync as substitute for imapsync was Supporting the project financially

2021-12-13 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu via isync-devel
Not that I would wish to prejudice the author(s) of imapsync, another paid tool for IMAP migration, but what would it take for mbsync, whose interface and configuration I much prefer, to be usable for one-way syncs in the fashion of imapsync? And, yes, I’ll pay for it. As patron, not as customer

Bulletproof backup strategy

2021-12-13 Thread H
I have lost email correspondence in thunderbird that is also not on the ISP mail server. As is usually the case, this was discovered many months later when I actually needed the emails. I am not sure how this happened: whether there was a crash of the ISP mail server, mail lost, and this then tr

Re: isync as substitute for imapsync was Supporting the project financially

2021-12-13 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 02:26:13PM +, Sabahattin Gucukoglu via isync-devel wrote: Not that I would wish to prejudice the author(s) of imapsync, another paid tool for IMAP migration, but what would it take for mbsync, whose interface and configuration I much prefer, to be usable for one-way

Re: Supporting the project financially

2021-12-13 Thread Nacho Barrientos
Hi, Oswald Buddenhagen writes: > On Sun, Dec 12, 2021 at 01:14:37PM +0100, Nacho Barrientos wrote: >>Nowadays, iSync is an essential part of my computing. >> > pedantically, it's better to avoid this capitalization, as it's > apple's (much younger and now defunct) trademark. Pedantically, but r

Re: isync as substitute for imapsync was Supporting the project financially

2021-12-13 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu via isync-devel
On 13 Dec 2021, at 17:49, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 02:26:13PM +, Sabahattin Gucukoglu via > isync-devel wrote: >> Not that I would wish to prejudice the author(s) of imapsync, another paid >> tool for IMAP migration, but what would it take for mbsync, whose interfa

Re: isync as substitute for imapsync was Supporting the project financially

2021-12-13 Thread Simão Afonso
On 2021-12-13 18:21:51, Sabahattin Gucukoglu via isync-devel wrote: > On 13 Dec 2021, at 17:49, Oswald Buddenhagen > wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 02:26:13PM +, Sabahattin Gucukoglu via > > isync-devel wrote: > >> Not that I would wish to prejudice the author(s) of imapsync, another pai

Re: Bulletproof backup strategy

2021-12-13 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 12:34:38PM -0500, H wrote: Perhaps I should have a second script that syncs my upstream mailbox to local storage, ie also deletes anything locally that is no longer found upstream? in simpler terms, one regular working clone, and one full backup. The drawback is that

Re: isync as substitute for imapsync was Supporting the project financially

2021-12-13 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu via isync-devel
On 13 Dec 2021, at 18:27, Simão Afonso wrote: > On 2021-12-13 18:21:51, Sabahattin Gucukoglu via isync-devel wrote: >> One-way (possibly stateless) sync, with optional deletion of messages from >> the source, with optional removal of empty folders. I am aware that this can >> be implemented with

Re: isync as substitute for imapsync was Supporting the project financially

2021-12-13 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 06:21:51PM +, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote: One-way (possibly stateless) sync, [...] i'm not sure which of the named behaviors you consider requirements, and which just happen to be things imapsync does, so here are three ways to do it *somehow* with isync: the most

Re: Bulletproof backup strategy

2021-12-13 Thread Marton Balazs
My way (I hope it's helpful, sorry if not) is that I only trust my local maildir that I sync across my machines and back up multiple times a day using rsync. I only use the mail providers' interfaces for mobile and web access as read-only if needed, any manipulation happens on the local maildir

Re: Supporting the project financially

2021-12-13 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 09:57:12AM +0100, Nacho Barrientos wrote: I was initially suggesting Github sponsors as of today AFAIK they don't take any fee for 1-to-1 sponsorship and they charge in USD, allowing non-USD-native donors to work around terrible currency conversion rates by using platforms