From: Filipp Gunbin <fgunbin@fastmail.fm>
To: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Gnus and offline Email
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2016 13:34:24 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2shqt821b.fsf@fgunbin.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zil1zxr4.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (Eric Abrahamsen's message of "Mon, 14 Nov 2016 11:07:11 -0800")
On 14/11/2016 11:07 -0800, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
> Filipp Gunbin <fgunbin@fastmail.fm> 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.
Filipp
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-15 10:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-12 15:11 Gnus and offline Email Tim Zander
2016-11-12 19:37 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2016-11-14 20:42 ` Tim Zander
2016-11-14 21:29 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2016-11-14 12:28 ` Filipp Gunbin
2016-11-14 19:07 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2016-11-15 10:34 ` Filipp Gunbin [this message]
2016-11-15 17:20 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2016-11-15 17:44 ` Jeffrey DeLeo
2016-11-17 13:47 ` Filipp Gunbin
2016-11-17 16:57 ` Jeffrey DeLeo
2016-11-21 10:34 ` Eric S Fraga
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