Re: mbsync & getmail

[Oswald B. <osw...@gm...>]

On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 09:23:20AM +0200, Gour wrote:
> Iow. I'd fetch all my mail with getmail, do spam/virus filtering and some
> sorting using maildrop before delivery to Maildir folders and use mbsync to
> sync with my remote IMAP servers.
> 
i must admit i'm not sure what data flow exactly you have in mind.
if your idea is to mirror email to an imap server which is not involved
in the delivery of the messages, then that's just fine.
if you want to "feed back" to the server you got the mail from in the
first place, then you should pay attention to not sync the source
mailbox with mbsync (i don't think it would be particularly bad, just
that it would cause unnecessary traffic). note however that downloading
and re-uploading the messages after sorting isn't particularly efficient
to start with.