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Written by Jack Baty on 2025-01-26 at 12:31

I really need to manage email on both computers. After failing to sync my Notmuch database using muchsync, I figured I'd just switch to Mu4e, which is "nicer" and doesn't keep anything locally, so everything is via IMAP.

It's just that I'd rather use Notmuch, so I may need to revisit the problem. I'd rather not, but ¯_(ツ)_/¯.

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Written by tvaughan on 2025-01-26 at 12:43

@jbaty I love mu4e. Another option is to setup mu4e to just read a local maildir and let isync do the imap stuff https://isync.sourceforge.io

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Written by Jack Baty on 2025-01-26 at 14:03

@tvaughan That's how I've done it when using Mu4e. Works great.

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Written by mms :runbsd: + :emacs: :vim: on 2025-01-26 at 12:47

@jbaty do you do much (trololo) manual tagging? For me it 99% automatic, so it’s reproducible

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Written by Jack Baty on 2025-01-26 at 14:04

@mms Yeah, I do some manual tagging. I'm also working towards putting non-email content in notmuch, which makes it trickier.

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Written by Christian Tietze on 2025-01-27 at 05:16

@jbaty @mms What do you mean, "putting non-email content in notmuch"?

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Written by Jack Baty on 2025-01-27 at 10:35

@ctietze Paul Ford (@ftrain) wrote about it in wired: https://www.wired.com/story/i-finally-reached-computing-nirvana-what-was-it-all-for/.

I asked him for some details in an email, and he said he used notmuch. I haven't stopped thinking about it.

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Written by Jörg Volbers on 2025-01-26 at 14:47

@jbaty did u try syncing your imap on both computers with mbsync/isync? The server is the reference store the , and the local computers just sync with it.

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Written by Jack Baty on 2025-01-26 at 15:06

@apublicimage No, I let muchsync sync the mail store as well. I think that's how it's supposed to work, yes? Still ended up with 20,000 duplicates so I messed up somewhere

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Written by Jörg Volbers on 2025-01-26 at 15:13

@jbaty but you don't need to synchronize you Mail Store if both local stores will always synchronice with the server which is the always up to date. I'd give it a try mbsync does a good job and never needs attention. And you would not need to switch the mail client. (Edited because of voice recognition going crazy)

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Written by Jack Baty on 2025-01-26 at 15:44

@apublicimage So it's safe to run mbsync on both machines and then run muchsync on just the laptop, syncing just the notmuch db from the desktop. I'll give that a go, thanks!

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Written by Jörg Volbers on 2025-01-26 at 16:13

@jbaty good luck!

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Written by Jack Baty on 2025-01-26 at 16:15

@apublicimage I tried. Same problem. Maildir was up to date (via mbsync) on both machines. Laptop had no notmuch db. ran muchsync (without --init) on the laptop and it started sending duplicates of every message again. I'll figure it out :)

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