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Old 9th November 2022
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Originally Posted by Sehnsucht94 View Post
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Th only downside of OfflineIMAP is that it's still written in python2.
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Upstream offlineimap has been forked to Python3 based offlineimap3 and is recommended by the original project:

https://github.com/OfflineIMAP/offlineimap
https://github.com/OfflineIMAP/offlineimap3

I ended up with a fetchmail/nmh solution but updating offlineimap -> offlineimap3 would be a worthy port upgrade for OpenBSD.

In my research, I also found a performance comparison between offlineimap and isync. For large backup's, isync (coded in C) was said to perform about 35% faster.

https://irreal.org/blog/?p=8184

I'm on the fence as far as Maildir vs #mh storage formats. Out of the box, Evolution/Thunderbird use Maildir and Sylpheed/Claws-Mail use #mh.

Last edited by shep; 9th November 2022 at 02:29 PM.
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