Re: [Mailsync-list] A couple of questions - if anyone is here

[Chris G. <ch...@ar...>]

On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 03:27:43PM +0100, Holger Krull wrote:
> >So, my questions:-
> >
> >    If I use the -n option (don't delete) will the result be that only
> >    new messages will be copied either way and nothing will be
> >    deleted?  (In practice only the remote system will get new
> >    messages)
> 
> Yes, that is the intention. Mailsync will copy the messages it has not seen 
> before.
> 
Thinking a bit further about this how does one specify the stores at
each end?  If I have a wildcard for the remote system which is the
only one that will have new messages so I have:-

    pat         Mail/*
    prefix      Mail

Does the other end have to be identical or could I put:-

    pat         Mail
    prefix      Mail

I *never* want to copy mail from the local system to the remote
system.

> 
> >    Can I access a remote mbox hierarchy with mailsync using ssh?
> >
> 
> I only used imap so far, but there are examples of local mail formats in 
> the Documentation. Like:
> #
> # accessing an MH inbox over ssh
> #
> # c-client will try to exec the following to
> # get to the mails:
> #
> #       ssh example.org exec /etc/rimapd
> 
Yes, that's what suggested I can maybe use it through ssh to a remote
mbox hierarchy, I suppose I'll just have to try it!  :-)


> mailsync says it can use anything that can be used by something called 
> c-client. But i never found any doc about a c-client. 
> If anyone has a source for the often mentioned c-client faq i would really 
> like to read that.
> 
There's the UW (University of Washington) IMAP site.  c-client comes
with UW-IMAP.  Take a look at http://www.washington.edu/imap/, there's
certainly *some* stuff about c-client there.

Thanks for your reply, looking at the archive this list seems very
quiet so it was nice to get an answer so soon.

-- 
Chris Green (ch...@ar...)

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