[gentoo-user] Local Mail with Procmail and Thunderbird (or similar)

[wraeth]

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Greetings all!

I have several IMAP mail accounts that I want to be able to
synchronize locally (on several machines - two-way sync would be a
bonus but not necessarily required) and access the local mail store
with my mail client. At present I use Thunderbird, and I am rather
fond of it's interface (despite some of the issues I've had with it
(half of which I think were related to the concurrent IMAP connections)).

I've been digging around (a lot) and figure the solution would involve
Procmail and Fetchmail/OfflineIMAP. I have a semi-working setup,
whereby mail delivered through sendmail locally is delivered to the
correct location by procmail.

My problem is Thunderbird. I know that Thunderbird by default uses
mbox, and have configured new mail stores to be created with maildir;
but it seems Thunderbird doesn't read maildir's /new directory, and
messages delivered into /cur don't get read until the mailbox is
rebuilt (presumably because of the .msf index).  Rebuilding the
mailbox also messes up the message status.

My question is: does anyone know how I can configure either Procmail
to deliver messages in a format Thunderbird will understand; or how I
can configure Thunderbird to be a little bit more maildir compliant?

Failing that, what mail clients others would suggest (preferably GUI -
I have mutt installed, but hiding my mail in a console would end up
with a lot of messages going unnoticed)?

Cheers;
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wraeth

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