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[#]: collector: (lujun9972)
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[#]: subject: (Keep your email in sync with OfflineIMAP)
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[#]: via: (https://opensource.com/article/20/1/sync-email-offlineimap)
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[#]: author: (Kevin Sonney https://opensource.com/users/ksonney)
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Keep your email in sync with OfflineIMAP
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======
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Mirroring your email to a local folder is the first step in taming your
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message pileup. Learn how in the third article in our series on 20 ways
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to be more productive with open source in 2020.
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![email or newsletters via inbox and browser][1]
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Last year, I brought you 19 days of new (to you) productivity tools for 2019. This year, I'm taking a different approach: building an environment that will allow you to be more productive in the new year, using tools you may or may not already be using.
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### Sync your email locally with OfflineIMAP
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I have a love/hate relationship with email. I love the way it allows me to communicate with people all over the world. But, like many of you, I get a lot of mail, much of it from lists as well as spammers, advertisers, and the like. And it builds up.
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![The OfflineIMAP "blinkenlights" UI][2]
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Almost all the tools I've tried (outside of the big mail providers) that work really well with large amounts of mail have one thing in common: they all rely on a local copy of your mail stored in [Maildir][3] format. And the most useful tool for that is [OfflineIMAP][4]. OfflineIMAP is a Python script that mirrors IMAP mailboxes to a local Maildir folder tree. I use it to create a local copy of my mail and keep it in sync. Most Linux distributions include it, and it is available via Python's pip package manager.
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The sample minimal configuration file is a good template to start with; begin by copying it to **~/.offlineimaprc**. Mine looks something like this:
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```
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[general]
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accounts = LocalSync
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ui=Quiet
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autorefresh=30
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[Account LocalSync]
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localrepository = LocalMail
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remoterepository = MirrorIMAP
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[Repository MirrorIMAP]
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type = IMAP
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remotehost = my.mail.server
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remoteuser = myusername
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remotepass = mypassword
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auth_mechanisms = LOGIN
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createfolder = true
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ssl = yes
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sslcacertfile = OS-DEFAULT
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[Repository LocalMail]
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type = Maildir
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localfolders = ~/Maildir
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sep = .
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createfolder = true
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```
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What my configuration does is define two repositories: the remote IMAP server and the local Maildir folder. There is also the **Account** that tells OfflineIMAP what to sync when it runs. You can define multiple accounts linked to different repositories. This allows you to copy from one IMAP server to another as a backup, in addition to making a copy locally.
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The first run of OfflineIMAP will take a while if you have a lot of mail. But once it is done, future runs take a _lot_ less time. You can also run OfflineIMAP as a cron job (my preference) or as a daemon constantly syncing between repositories. The documentation covers all of this, as well as advanced configuration options for things like Gmail.
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Now that my mail is copied locally, there is a whole range of tools I can work with to speed up searching, filing, and managing mail. And I'll talk about that tomorrow.
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via: https://opensource.com/article/20/1/sync-email-offlineimap
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作者：[Kevin Sonney][a]
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选题：[lujun9972][b]
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[a]: https://opensource.com/users/ksonney
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[b]: https://github.com/lujun9972
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[1]: https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/styles/image-full-size/public/lead-images/newsletter_email_mail_web_browser.jpg?itok=Lo91H9UH (email or newsletters via inbox and browser)
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[2]: https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/uploads/productivity_3-1.png (The OfflineIMAP "blinkenlights" UI)
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[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir
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[4]: http://www.offlineimap.org/
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