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| author |  http://spindritf.myopenid.com/ <spindritf@web> | 2013-08-14 00:19:44 +0000 |
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| committer |  admin <admin@branchable.com> | 2013-08-14 00:19:44 +0000 |
| commit | 07d4bff28fd338f0fb04d4c3cee82a2c6f0fabd5 (patch) | |
| tree | 2319be9a61794dcfa716d57a82662eda1749df64 /doc | |
| parent | 5605ce0e4769a1a29d837a83a96ae85c11849ae4 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/doc/forum/Poor_man__39__s_IMAP.mdwn b/doc/forum/Poor_man__39__s_IMAP.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..24c1190c2 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/Poor_man__39__s_IMAP.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +I have an e-mail server configured to save my mail in ~/Maildir on an account that is available over ssh. I'd like to keep emailserver:~/Maildir in a two-way sync with laptop:~/Mail/private essentially creating a poor man's IMAP — without setting up and maintaining an actual IMAP server. **Is it an appropriate use of git-annex or would another tool be more fitting? And how do I go about doing it?** I'd like to sync the files, the content, not just information about the files or other meta-data. + +I tried setting it up with the webUI to the assistant but it only offers encrypted storage[1] on the remote server. I looked into setting it up manually but "git-annex does not notice when files are added to remote rsync repositories."[2] + +[1] http://git-annex.branchable.com/bugs/Remote_repositories_have_to_be_setup_encrypted/ +[2] from comments on http://git-annex.branchable.com/special_remotes/rsync/ |