Preferred way to get imap emails

[Cameron Simpson]

On 27Jul2019 22:40, Pankaj Jangid <pankaj.jangid at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 11:41:52AM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
>> I still use fetchmail and with imap accounts including google.  and 
>> have no problem.
>>
>Probably I'll try it again. This was my favourite tool. But then I check
>that there is no change in the repository since very long. I was worried
>if this is still maintained or not.

Maybe it is stable :-)

I use getmail to pull my personal (self hosted) inbox, and my GMail 
account forwards to that. So it all funnels to my laptop, where I file 
it.

However, that means your email isn't in the upstream IMAP mail tree, 
which may make accessing it otherwise (eg on a phone) tricky. My 
personal hack for this is to have a distinct IMAP account for the phone, 
and my filing system forwards important stuff to that as it is seen. And 
my mutt "F" macro (normally flag-message) flags the message and also 
forwards a copy to the phone mailbox.

Offlineimap seems to work (according to what I hear on the offlineimap 
list; I keep meaning to give it a proper try), which is good for keeping 
the IMAP folders and your local folder in sync.

Regarding offlineimap quitting, had you considered running it as a cron 
job in once-off mode?

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au>