On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 07:18:43AM -0700, Dan Barber wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using offlineimap to pull down an account just for backup purposes. I'm > not using a mail reader on the resulting Maildir directory.
This should not happen. > I use thunderbird to access the imap server. After running offlineimap to > pull down emails, numerous messages are marked as 'unread'. Using > thunderbird, I will mark them again as 'read' but they revert to 'unread' > again after the next run. I run offlineimap once a day. > > I'm sure this is probably expected and understood behavior. I'm just looking > for a 'read-only' copy of my email from IMAP server to a local directory. If > anyone can help, it would be appreciated. I think you're looking for the readonly feature: https://github.com/OfflineIMAP/offlineimap/blob/master/offlineimap.conf#L1327 -- Nicolas Sebrecht _______________________________________________ OfflineIMAP-project mailing list: [email protected] https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/offlineimap-project OfflineIMAP homepages: - https://github.com/OfflineIMAP - http://offlineimap.org
