Preferred way to get imap emails

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On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 08:44:09AM +0530, Pankaj Jangid wrote:
> I don't know which distribution you are on. Right now I am on macOS and
> installed mbsync using Homebrew. mbsync comes under isync package in
> Homebrew. And isync provides a daemon by the same name. I just had to
> 
> brew services start isync

That service is not part of isync but of the packaging [1].

Personally, I'm using the systemd service + timer from [2] on Linux. If
you read [1], it shows that they do exactly the same thing, creating a
service that runs in specific intervals, on macOS.

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[1] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/isync.rb
[2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Isync#Automatic_synchronization