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Re: mail synchronisation between laptop and desktop



On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 02:29, mike dentifrice wrote:
> Unison can do bidirectionnal syncing indeed. But I fear it can't take
> *content* into consideration. Unison will look at files as files, not as
> mboxes, so it won't know if a mail is to be suppressed (because deleted)
> or added (because new), right?

Correct, which is why I use Unison + maildirs.  This way each mail is a
separate file, so it does exactly what I want.  I can add and remove
different mails on my desktop and laptop, and then unison does The Right
Thing.

I use courier-imap, but I've heard good things about dovecot.

Ross
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