On 16/01/2019 21.23, Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 16/01/2019 17.03, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 2019-01-16 9:21 a.m., Carlos E. R. wrote:
The goal is to keep laptop and desktop machine dovecot accounts in sync, in both directions. Even better, two laptops and one desktop.
I do something like this, but two portable Androids and the desktop. I have no problems with it. Any change to any one of the couple of dozen IMAP accounts I use is available to the other devices.
The downside is that on the Android devices the mail app I use -- K@, a development from K9 -- needs to be told to rescan manually. Setting the rescan period to 'automatic' for less than some longer period, an hour say, places too much demand on the batter for wifi/DATA use.
You misunderstand.
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.
Some years back, we used to spend our summer holidays on a remote Greek island, no wifi, sketchy mobile connection. I managed quite well by switching the laptop to "offline" mode before we left, keeping copies of mails locally, then only getting the daily refresh (which could take a while). (3 imap accounts, from one server).
Yes. I did that in the past. But syncing my desktop dovecot-imap server to my laptop Thunderbird for offline use takes hours and dozens, if not hundreds, of megabytes. Wait, is is more than 12 gigabytes, just took a look. My current system is much faster. And Thunderbird would say that it had synced everything, and then I would try to read something and the contents would be missing. The next post would be complete, but some were missing. It was not reliable. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.0 x86_64 at Telcontar)