IDLE support with OfflineIMAP
January 04, 2024 —
Nico Cartron
As I mentioned in my article about Mutt, I am using OfflineIMAP to synchronise my emails to my FreeBSD laptop.
I recently found out that it does support IMAP IDLE, allowing to have your emails delivered in real-time / through notifications.
It's just one line to add in your ~/.offlineimaprc, with the name(s) of the
folder(s) you want:
[Repository Remote]
type = IMAP
remotehost = <redacted>
remoteuser = <redacted>
remotepass = <redacted>
idlefolders = ['INBOX']
You will then see something like this in your offlineimap logs whenever an email hits this IMAP INBOX mailbox:
Thread-4:
Syncing INBOX: IMAP -> Maildir
Copy message UID 162102 (1/1) Remote:INBOX -> Local:INBOX
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