On Sun, Aug 04, 2002, James Gregory wrote:
> Keeping a local copy of my mail archives is another problem. 

This one was one that Jeff and I were discussing a while ago, there
don't seem to be many good solutions. It's especially difficult if you
want to sync both ways.

The ones Jeff and I canvassed were:

 * One IMAP server which is the 'primary' mail repository. Most IMAP
   clients don't sync both ways though. isync syncs a single local
   Maildir folder with a remote IMAP repository in both directions, but
   that's not very useful if you have 70-odd folders like I do, or if
   you don't like Maildir.

 * You could, if you can sync your procmailrc, or your mail client's
   filtering rules, download mail using fetchmail from a central server
   - this doesn't cope well with post-procmail filtering (ie if you save
   mail to a different folder after the auto-filtering).

There are problems with bi-directional syncing in general. If intermezzo
or coda turn out not to be the answer, rsync-ing your mailboxes might
be...

-Mary.
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