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Can offlineimap do a one-way sync?

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Mar 15, 20269684 views
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I love the free webmail services out there but hate having years of mail tied up in one of these products. I'm looking for a way to cache a mailbox locally but still be able to access it from a locally installed imap client. I looked at offlineimap, which looks great except its doing a two-way sync…

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OfflineIMAP does support one-way sync (no updates to the actual mail server's mailbox), using the option. See the sample configuration file in the official GitHub repository. So your config file should contain:

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