Re: Gnus and offline Email

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Filipp Gunbin <fgunbin@fastmail.fm> writes:

> On 14/11/2016 11:07 -0800, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>
>> Filipp Gunbin <fgunbin@fastmail.fm> writes:
>>>
>>> A less popular, but working way is to download mail via IMAP as you
>>> would do via POP.  Like that:
>>>
>>> [...]
>>
>> Interesting. So, for my own information, this basically creates a
>> one-way sync with your mail server? What happens if, say, you delete a
>> message locally, then sync again? Will it replace the message, or is it
>> a "blind" one-way sync?
>
> It just downloads mail from the server, deleting it there, and puts it
> locally according to your select methods settings.
>
> That's not how IMAP is usually used, although I find it useful, because
> I try to keep by inbox (local & remote) clean.

Interesting -- thanks for that.