using local imap as proxy

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 14:16 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 19:55:13 +0100
> Christoph H__ger <choeger at cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
> 
> > 1. sync local data with the remote imap account
> > 2. sync local changes back to the remote account
> 
> I've just been setting up dovecot on my system and
> saw something about an "imapsync" program go past
> in my various web searches, but I don't know if it
> can work to keep things in sync in both directions.

imapsync is mainly for doing (manual) syncing of mailboxes between IMAP
servers. An alternative approach is an IMAP proxy (e.g.
http://www.imapproxy.org/) but I'm not sure it's really going to help
him much in this case.

poc