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On 2019-01-16 12:30 p.m., Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 16/01/2019 18.01, James Knott wrote:
On 01/16/2019 11:57 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
I want to sync three imap *servers*. Or at least, two.
The laptop is used on places where there is no internet or very limited, where I can not connect to the imap server back at home.
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You're running Dovecot on the laptop? I don't understand that. If you want to be able to read messages while offline, then just configure your email app to download the messages when downloading, instead of headers only.
No way.
You are saying that I would store my local mail folders, several gigabytes of mail, in local folders in Thunderbird at one computer.
No I am not.
The problem then would become how to sync that Thunderbird local storage with two other computers.
If you were using IMAP properly you wouldn't have this problem. If you were using IMAP alone Thunderbird would re-sync whenever you had connectivity, regardless. You are thinking of 'download' as an analogue to POP/fetchmail. When T'Bird 'downloads' messages it is in effect caching the IMAP over above what you've actually viewed but not deleting the cache when you log out. So when you reconnect, it resynchronises. You can do this on a folder by folder not just account by account. So you can download-for-sync under the FolderProperties->Synchronization tab for just the inbox and ignore everything else. The same happens with K9/K@. Yes it is a data hit, but I have a big microSD card in my tablet & phone for that; a 32G that cost me about C$15. It also have movies and a lot of stuff from Gutenberg and and the transcription of my favourite CDs. By now, 64G chips are getting cheap. Space is not the issue and hasn't been for a long while. Use IMAP and IMAP alone. It was designed to cope with situation such as you are describing, once you get rid of that superfluous Dovecot server that is screwing up the resynchronisation.
Frankly, it is more reliable and versatile to instead store my local mail folders under my local dovecot server, where I can access it with any mail client in any locally connected computer.
IFF AND ONLY IFF that server was always powered up and always available to all your devices. If you ran that on your PC and used fetchmail/getmail to bring in ALL your accounts and you ONLY connected to that server for your mail AND your PC was always up AND you had both LAN AND wifi permanently up for local access by your mobile devices AND you had a (secured) internet facing port on the Dovecot server for you non-local mobile devices, than yes, your assertion would bet true. I know that is the case because I use that for my non-IMAP accounts. My PC uses fetchmail to read my (very few) POP only accounts (legacy and couple of providers who demand additional $$ for IMAP or simply won't activate the IMAP on their server). Get rid of the dovecot on your portable devices, they are what is screwing up your system. Make your portable devices use pure IMAP for all the accounts. If you insist on using a local Dovecot server for this fatuous 'reliability' -- I find the ISPs & the internet in general more reliable than my own equipment! -- then have one and one only where is is permanently available. You do not need a local store such as dovecot on your portable devices is they are running proper IMAP reader such as T'Bird. You can tell T'Bird to select a folder for off-line use and it will keep that in sync to the best of its ability when it can establish a connection. Having a dovecot server on any of your portable devices is an unnecessary complication and is why you are having the woes and complications you describe. I know the solution I describe works because I'm running it. I'm not talking a hypothetical, I'm talking what works. Not only does it work, but I CANNOT run Dovecot on my Android phone and this still works! -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org