Re: [sup-talk] Archive Emails to Different Source

[Mark Alexander <marka@pobox.com>]

Excerpts from Bryan Richardson's message of Fri Mar 11 16:46:54 -0500 2011:
> I'm using Sup to access email from my company's Microsoft Exchange
> Server via IMAP (using offlineimap). My Exchange mailbox size
> limitation is 1GB, so every once in a while I will move email from my
> Inbox to a personal Outlook archive file that is stored on my local
> machine. However, when I do this the emails that I archive get removed
> from my local IMAP cache the next time offlineimap runs.

I would recommend using fetchmail instead of offlineimap.  That way
you are ensured that you have local copies of your email that won't
get deleted, no matter what happens on your Exchange server.  I used
offlineimap briefly because so many people on this mailing list said
it was wonderful.  But when it started deleting messages that
apparently other Outlook users had "recalled", I went back to
fetchmail.

I use fetchmail in combination with maildrop, which actually places
the emails in maildir directories.  You can also use procmail instead
of maildrop, though its configuration language is a bit obscure.
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