Re: IMAP with server deletion

2019-07-05 Thread Tomas Nordin
Sam Halliday writes: > Hello all, Hello Sam > I'm using emacs + notmuch + offlineimap + msmtp to manage my Gmail. I have that setup apart from Gmail, (I use Posteo). > > My gmail account is starting to get so big that an offline sync is >time > consuming. > > I'd like to delete messages on th

Re: IMAP with server deletion

2019-07-05 Thread Dan Čermák
Hi Sam, I don't have exactly the same setup, but what might work for you is the following: move all messages without +flagged into a local Maildir (that is not synchronized by offlineimap, i.e. "just a folder"). Notmuch will still be able to find your messages and your synchronization time will g

Re: IMAP with server deletion

2019-07-05 Thread Chris Coutinho
Offlineimap has a 'sync_deletes' flag that defaults to 'yes' in both your local and remote repositories. You can elect to delete locally and keep remote, or delete remotely and keep locally. See the short comment in the offlineimap configuration file on github: https://github.com/OfflineIMAP/offl

IMAP with server deletion

2019-07-05 Thread Sam Halliday
Hello all, I'm using emacs + notmuch + offlineimap + msmtp to manage my Gmail. My gmail account is starting to get so big that an offline sync is time consuming. I'd like to delete messages on the server, but keep them locally. Is that possible with IMAP? There is one complicating factor that s