From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Gnus and offline Email Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2016 09:20:12 -0800 Message-ID: <87twb8u0c3.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <58273138.4070808@openmailbox.org> <87zil1zxr4.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1479232996 18601 195.159.176.226 (15 Nov 2016 18:03:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2016 18:03:16 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.130014 (Ma Gnus v0.14) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 15 19:03:12 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1c6i3l-00070x-Sq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Nov 2016 19:02:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47944 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c6i3p-0001rA-2p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Nov 2016 13:02:21 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48586) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c6hPr-0005Hi-QS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Nov 2016 12:21:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c6hPo-0006Pz-M2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Nov 2016 12:21:03 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=48297 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c6hPo-0006Pj-Fn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Nov 2016 12:21:00 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1c6hPO-0001eY-Ch for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Nov 2016 18:20:34 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:IAmzY5kwLFFCgNluimYABPV6RRA= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 15 Nov 2016 13:01:40 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:111735 Archived-At: Filipp Gunbin writes: > On 14/11/2016 11:07 -0800, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > >> Filipp Gunbin writes: >>> >>> A less popular, but working way is to download mail via IMAP as you >>> would do via POP. Like that: >>> >>> [...] >> >> Interesting. So, for my own information, this basically creates a >> one-way sync with your mail server? What happens if, say, you delete a >> message locally, then sync again? Will it replace the message, or is it >> a "blind" one-way sync? > > It just downloads mail from the server, deleting it there, and puts it > locally according to your select methods settings. > > That's not how IMAP is usually used, although I find it useful, because > I try to keep by inbox (local & remote) clean. Interesting -- thanks for that.