offlineimap VS neomutt

There are also isync and OfflineIMAP which sync email locally.

I'd consider using the Bridge + offlineimap (or a similar tool). That can connect via IMAP to both the Bridge IMAP and your destination IMAP service and copy all mails automatically that way.

As u/alex_herrero says, Proton Mail Bridge is very much useful. I'm using this myself together with offlineimap to have a local backup. I also use the Bridge with Thunderbird too, which also works quite well (especially the v3 beta).

For the sync / import functionality the MSP uses offlineimap, which is another counterpart to IMAPSYNC. Changing the import tool will not bring up the solution to the main problem, that I am not able to reset the imported stuff back to zero in order to test the different scenarios of the main use case.

Don't risk relying on someone else's hardware or service, use something like Offlineimap or Mbsync to sync your emails to your computer then automate multiple backups.

Many people use OfflineIMAP.

I've used offlineimap in the past: http://www.offlineimap.org/

I'm looking into replacing Thunderbird with mu4e (for the first time, despite being an Emacs guy for 15 years) and I got unexpectedly stuck at step 1, dowloading my email. offlineimap is broken on newer Pythons, getmail doesn't support Python 3 at all, and fetchmail is infamously inscrutable. It all seems a bit ridiculous, but I guess it speaks to how webmail has come to dominate proper email clients. Any recommendations?

Neither a mutt, nor an offlineimap user, but I believe those two are often used in combination: http://www.offlineimap.org/

https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt is a mature project with similar functionality in its arsenal via tagging and vim bindings, not limited to gmail either. You can also write emails in vim/$EDITOR fluidly.

I checked out the neomut repo and notmuch repo and unpacked ncurses 6.4

git clone https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt ./configure --notmuch --with-notmuch=/usr/local/lib/notmuch And because it gives me the error: Checking for DocBook DTDs... Error: couldn't execute "xmlcatalog": no such file or directory ... I just disable it, because I don't need a book:

I think it's always worth mentioning neomutt[1] when mutt comes up these days. Development is fairly active [2] and a lot of patches that people have been working on over the years have been merged, like the various header compression techniques, sidebar, search and unified inbox with notmuch etc.

[1] https://neomutt.org/feature

[2] https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt

based on this: https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/issues/717

I'd also like to do a similar thing with neomutt, which will definitely have to be built from source.