Re: IMAP <-> nmh syncing

Thomas DUPOND via "Discussion of nmh development, and help for new users" <[email protected]> Mon, 9 Mar 2026 11:28:41 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.mail.nmh.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Le 2026-03-07 à 18:10, Philipp a écrit :
> Hi
> 
> [2026-03-07 12:04] "Eduardo Alvarez" <[email protected]>
>> I'm relatively new to nmh, having used it back in 2010 for a bit.
>> Back then, I used getmail to fetch and delete all of my email from my
>> email service, which was processed by procmail and converted to nmh
>> mailboxes vian rcvstore. This worked fine when I did all my email
>> processing locally.
>>
>> However, as time has passed, I've found myself needing to have access
>> to my messages remotely, which means the previous solution is no
>> longer viable. I was hoping to find some mechanism by which I can sync
>> my IMAP mailboxes with local nmh mailboxes. I've seen applications
>> like offilineimap and mbsync, but they work only on Maildir folders.
> 
> I know two imap<->mh sync tools:
> 
> * mailsync: https://mailsync.sourceforge.net/
> * netoric: https://git.c-14.de/netoric.git/

I can also attest of the good work done on netoric.  Used it 
successfully during a few years.

I remember having to set "Unseen-Sequence: u" in my .mh_profile for it 
is the default used by netoric.  But one can always configure netoric at 
compile time to use the default 'unseen' sequence by modifying compile.h.

-- 
Thomas