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Re: A viable mutt



On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 04:19:57PM -0700, Steve Lamb <grey@dmiyu.org> was heard to say:
>     Enter a tool which made mutt viable for my needs, mbsync (debian package -
> isync).  It is a tool which syncronizes a local Maildir folder with a remote
> imap folder.  In essence it is a local imap cache.  Mutt's failings as an imap
> client are masked since all of its operations are local.  mbsync is in my
> crontab syncronizing the local cache with the remote folders once every 5
> minutes.

  Do you know how this compares to offlineimap?  I've been using that
to synchronize mailboxes more-or-less happily for the last few years.

  Daniel


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