Hello All, I''m using Sup to access email from my company''s Microsoft Exchange Server via IMAP (using offlineimap). My Exchange mailbox size limitation is 1GB, so every once in a while I will move email from my Inbox to a personal Outlook archive file that is stored on my local machine. However, when I do this the emails that I archive get removed from my local IMAP cache the next time offlineimap runs. Is it possible to have Sup archive (or otherwise move) email messages to a different IMAP source? I''m not so much worried about being able to remove the messages from my Exchange account via Sup as I am maintaining a local copy of all my email accessible via Sup. I can archive them via Sup first then archive them in Outlook if that''s what it takes. Please advise. -- Thanks! Bryan
Anyone have an idea about this? I''m really hoping Sup can be a viable option for archiving emails... -- Thanks! Bryan On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Bryan Richardson <btricha at gmail.com> wrote:> Hello All, > > I''m using Sup to access email from my company''s Microsoft Exchange > Server via IMAP (using offlineimap). My Exchange mailbox size > limitation is 1GB, so every once in a while I will move email from my > Inbox to a personal Outlook archive file that is stored on my local > machine. However, when I do this the emails that I archive get removed > from my local IMAP cache the next time offlineimap runs. > > Is it possible to have Sup archive (or otherwise move) email messages > to a different IMAP source? I''m not so much worried about being able > to remove the messages from my Exchange account via Sup as I am > maintaining a local copy of all my email accessible via Sup. I can > archive them via Sup first then archive them in Outlook if that''s what > it takes. > > Please advise. > > -- > Thanks! > Bryan >
Excerpts from Bryan Richardson''s message of Fri Mar 11 16:46:54 -0500 2011:> I''m using Sup to access email from my company''s Microsoft Exchange > Server via IMAP (using offlineimap). My Exchange mailbox size > limitation is 1GB, so every once in a while I will move email from my > Inbox to a personal Outlook archive file that is stored on my local > machine. However, when I do this the emails that I archive get removed > from my local IMAP cache the next time offlineimap runs.I would recommend using fetchmail instead of offlineimap. That way you are ensured that you have local copies of your email that won''t get deleted, no matter what happens on your Exchange server. I used offlineimap briefly because so many people on this mailing list said it was wonderful. But when it started deleting messages that apparently other Outlook users had "recalled", I went back to fetchmail. I use fetchmail in combination with maildrop, which actually places the emails in maildir directories. You can also use procmail instead of maildrop, though its configuration language is a bit obscure.
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Mark Alexander <marka at pobox.com> wrote:> I would recommend using fetchmail instead of offlineimap. ?That way > you are ensured that you have local copies of your email that won''t > get deleted, no matter what happens on your Exchange server. ?I used > offlineimap briefly because so many people on this mailing list said > it was wonderful. ?But when it started deleting messages that > apparently other Outlook users had "recalled", I went back to > fetchmail. > > I use fetchmail in combination with maildrop, which actually places > the emails in maildir directories. ?You can also use procmail instead > of maildrop, though its configuration language is a bit obscure.Thanks for the responses Mark and Philippe. My apologies for not realizing the fact that it''s an OfflineIMAP thing and not a Sup thing. I''ll look into the capabilities of OfflineIMAP a bit more, as well as investigate fetchmail and maildrop/procmail. -- Thanks! Bryan