Maybe you could try mailsync http://mailsync.sourceforge.net/ Regards, Victor 2011/12/12 Ralf Madorf <ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Hi :) > > 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 > > So I won't sync between my provider's server and my computer, but I'll > sync between several mailers on my computer. > > I like to test offlineimap anyway. > > There are two issues: > > - the wanted language for my computer should be English, but the maildir > directories always are generated in German. > I never set anything, but the keyboard and the timezone to German, but > first there wasn't a /etc/locale.conf, later I added this > configuration file, but nothing changed [1] > > - neither Evolution, nor Kmail are able to use the generated maildir, > resp. Evolution doesn't show the tons of mails of the INBOX, but > instead the few mails of a folder called Entw&APw-rfe [2] > FWIW I also installed Mutt, but I'll use a MUA with a GUI. > > [1] > ################ > ### 1. SETUP ### > ################ > > /etc/rc.conf > LOCALE="en_US.UTF-8" > DAEMON_LOCALE="no" > HARDWARECLOCK="localtime" > TIMEZONE="Europe/Berlin" > KEYMAP="de-latin1" > > /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/keyboard.conf > Option "XkbLayout" "de" > > /etc/locale.conf > No such file or directory > > ################ > ### 2. SETUP ### > ################ > > /etc/locale.conf > LOCALE="en_US.UTF-8 > > I deleted .offlineimap and Maildir and set up a new Evolution accounds. > > [2] > ##################### > ### offlineimaprc ### > ##################### > > ################################################## > # General definitions > ################################################## > > [general] > > metadata = ~/.offlineimap > accounts = Spinymouse > maxsyncaccounts = 1 > ui = Blinkenlights > > fsync = true > > ################################################## > # Mailbox name recorder > ################################################## > > [mbnames] > > ### First I tried with this and different settings for sep > #enabled = no > #filename = ~/Mutt/muttrc.mailboxes > #header = "mailboxes " > #peritem = "+%(accountname)s/%(foldername)s" > #sep =############ > #footer = "\n" > > ################################################## > # Accounts > ################################################## > > [Account Spinymouse] > > localrepository = Spinymouse-local > remoterepository = Spinymouse-remote > > [Repository Spinymouse-local] > > type = Maildir > localfolders = ~/Maildir > sep = / > restoreatime = no > > [Repository Spinymouse-remote] > > type = IMAP > remotehost = imap.alice-dsl.net > ssl = yes > remoteuser = ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > maxconnections = 2 > holdconnectionopen = no > subscribedonly = no > readonly = False > > Regards, > > Ralf > >