Preferred way to get imap emails

[Akkana Peck]

Pankaj Jangid writes:
> On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 12:41:21PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> > I have getmail working pulling email from my gmail account using imap
> > and it only grabs the new mail for me each time I run it and I open up
> > mutt and go through the email then mutt purges what I deleted as it
> > exits.
> > 
> That's a good choice if you just want to read inbox and clear up junk. I
> wanted to have all my IMAP folders synced locally. I am trying out
> mbsync. Let's see how it goes.

I've had the best luck with mbsync; it worked much better for me
than offlineimap or mailsync.

The only problem with mbsync is that it doesn't have a "daemon
mode", so I had to write a script that runs it every N seconds.
But that's a trivial complaint.

        ...Akkana