Preferred way to get imap emails

[Pankaj Jangid]

On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 12:21:47PM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> 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 :-)
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
I am trying out mbsync now. It is running as a service and working
smoothly till now. I configured it yesterday night. I am observing it
for 2-3 days.

> Regarding offlineimap quitting, had you considered running it as a cron job
> in once-off mode?
> 
Yes it was running as services but after the notebook goes into sleep it
doesn't work as expected. I have to restart service. I am on macOS.
Everytime it wakes up I must issue this command

brew services restart offlineimap


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