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   Kevin Riggle (kevinriggle@ioc.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 19-Oct-2024 14:34:28 JST Kevin Riggle

   • Tarah Wheeler
   • Tilde Lowengrimm

   @tilde @Tarah yes although you can point a regular imap server like dovecot at the Maildir, and let offlineimap sync the Maildir.

   Now that I say this I have no idea if using rsync to keep a Maildir folder in sync between computers has any horrid failure modes or not

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     Kevin Riggle (kevinriggle@ioc.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 19-Oct-2024 14:34:32 JST Kevin Riggle

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     • Tarah Wheeler
     • Tilde Lowengrimm

     @tilde @Tarah although, actually, rereading your question again, dovecot alone can also speak Maildir to your filesystem and IMAP to your mail client, it may even handle filesystem actions gracefully enough, I forget