Re: synchronizing deletions in getmail

Charles Cazabon <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.getmail.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Steve Quezadas <[email protected]> wrote:
> Forgive the naive question, but getmail seems to simply download mail from
> a specific IMAP folder, and that's it.

Well, it can do more than that - multiple mailboxes, filtering for
classification or modification, delivery-sorting, etc.

> But sometimes in mutt I might want to delete a particular email in my inbox,
> but have that deletion reflected in my imap folder

Nope, that's out of getmail's purview - getmail cannot track what happens to a
local message copy after it's delivered.  Look into imapsync instead, which
might do what you want.

Charles
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