On 16Oct2020 16:20, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >On Fri, 2020-10-16 at 08:44 -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: >> As I said in the other response, the reason for how I set things up, and that has worked reasonably well, is that I read e-mail at work and home, but the work machine is the one that I consider to be reliably backed up. It is also bigger in terms of disk. So what happens is that I fetchmail with keep, process e-mail at work using sylpheed and then fire up my home machine (a laptop) and fetchmail with keep from the POP server and the rsync it down (including the .sylpheed_mark and .sylpheed_cache). Then I work on the home machine, continue to fetchmail process e-mails, etc with sylpheed and when I am done (before I hibernate), I rsync it all up before I go back to work, so that when I go to the other (work) machine, I have the same status as I left at home/work. Of course, I need to be careful and vigilant for the reasons you alluded to. > >TBH I long ago gave up trying to juggle multiple machines and syncing >mail. I just use IMAP and let somebody else worry about it. In fact I'd >do that even if I was the somebody else, as I once used to be. People >say there are reasons for using POP, and perhaps there are for some >people, but frankly I've never been convinced by any of them. Local email lets me read and respond while offline, such as on a train. And it is so much faster :-) Cheers, Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
