Re: Gnus and offline Email

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Filipp Gunbin <fgunbin@fastmail.fm> writes:

> Hi,
>
> On 12/11/2016 16:11 +0100, Tim Zander wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> how do I set-up Gnus (and my GNU/Linux operating) to read and send my
>> emails? Preferably with IMAP but it should also work offline. Everything
>> I found online was very old, but if you know that some guide still works
>> today I could give it a try.
>>
>> My email provider is openmailbox.org and I am using GNU Emacs 26.0.50.2
>> on Trisquel 7.0 (if this makes any difference).
>>
>> Many Thanks,
>>
>> Tim
>
> A less popular, but working way is to download mail via IMAP as you
> would do via POP.  Like that:
>
> (setq mail-sources '((imap :server "yourserver.com" 
>                          :user "you@yourserver.com" 
>                          :stream tls)))
>
> (setq gnus-select-method '(nnnil ""))
>
> (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
>       '((nnfolder "mailserver"
>                 (nnfolder-directory "~/mailfolder"))))

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?