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Re: synchronization of two maildirs



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On Tuesday, October 28 at 02:53 PM, quoth malahal@xxxxxxxxxx:
> I receive my mail at my desktop and would like to read messages from the 
> laptop. Right now, I just ssh from the laptop and run mutt. It works 
> great!

:)

> I am going to a different place for couple months where the network 
> bandwidth is very poor. Ssh+mutt will not be very responsive. So I am 
> looking at programs that would synchronize two maildirs. Looked at isync 
> (mbsync) but that seems to need an IMAP (am I right?). Any other 
> programs that can work for me. If not, I may end up writing my own!

The first program that comes to mind is rsync. It avoids copying 
things that are already there, but unfortunately, it doesn't recognize 
file name changes that happen a lot in maildirs. But it wouldn't 
recopy messages that weren't changed, at least.

As an alternative, there is Maildirsync, which would be much more 
efficient: http://hacks.dlux.hu/maildirsync/

~Kyle
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