Re: redownloaded many gigs of mail
Nicolas Sebrecht <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.mail.imap.offlineimap.general |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 05:37:53AM +0200, Sandra Snan wrote: > Nicolas Sebrecht <[email protected]> writes: > > > Usually, local deletions are propagated on the remote server so if you > > remove emails locally they are deleted on the server too. > > Can I just move them to another folder using mkdir and mv in my local > shell? > I guess I need to read up on how the local mail directories work. Changes like removing emails in the local maildir are propagated back to the server. Offlineimap is a 2 way sync tool. If you want a cumulative backup you need to _copy_ the emails outside the mailbox or set the remote section as read-only. However, read-only would ignore other changes like changing the flags (e.g. the read status). There is the sync_deletes configuration option, too. It's not easy to explain what you could do because it's not clear what you intend. You might like to read the offlineimap.conf file in details: https://github.com/OfflineIMAP/offlineimap/blob/master/offlineimap.conf -- Nicolas Sebrecht _______________________________________________ OfflineIMAP-project mailing list: [email protected] https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/offlineimap-project OfflineIMAP homepages: - https://github.com/OfflineIMAP - http://offlineimap.org