On 2011-12-12T22:29:56, Ralf Madorf wrote: >I suspect that offlineimap isn't what I need for the wanted task: > >- to download emails from my providers server >- to delete them from the server when the download is finished >- to keep them on my computer, to get access to the emails from > different Linux installs > I think that for 1 and 2 (download and delete) you can use getmail with pop3 and 'delete = true' option. I never used like this but from the documentation [1] I think this do the intended. For 3 is "different Linux installs" on same computer? If so, you can simple use the same maildir. If not you can share the maildir via imap. [1]: http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/configuration.html