Re: Local copy of mails in IMAP folder?

[Dan Dofton <ddofton@4cls.org>]

On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 12:36:52 +0200
Joerg Johannes <liste_joerg@gmx.de> wrote:

> Is there a way to get a local copy of those mails, so that I 
> can read them weh I'm offline, too (and archive them on a backup CD)?

I use fetchmail to dump my imap mail into my local spool via exim.  I then
have it locally available to sort with Sylpheed's filters .

Here's how I do it:


502[mightyd@dld:~]$ cat .bash_profile
<snip>
if [[ `pgrep fetchmail` == "" ]]; then fetchmail -d 30; fi
. .bashrc

503[mightyd@dld:~]$ cat .fetchmailrc
poll mail.4cls.org with proto IMAP
user 'ddofton'
password '*********'
folders main ipswitch
keep