Re: keep full local copy of imap

[Jonathan Groll <lists@groll.co.za>]

On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 19:25:40 +0900, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:

> is there a shortcut hack to just keep local copies of all [imap]
> messages?  i have about 6k imap folders with 5g of mail.  i want
> to keep local copies, no discussion, as i fly too much and go places
> with low bandwidth.  is there just a simple hack?

Consider offlineimap:
https://github.com/nicolas33/offlineimap

And, if you like it there is offlineimap-el:
http://julien.danjou.info/offlineimap-el.html

Cheers,
Jonathan
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