Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> Eric et al.,

Hi Eric,

>
> All the proposed solutions require local imap mirroring if I understand
> correctly.  This is an appealing approach for a number of
> reasons.  However, I have been spectacularly unsuccessful in getting
> either offlineimap or isync to synchronise with an MS Exchange
> server.  I get filename errors or the transfer simply quits without ever
> managing to complete the first synchronisation.  (I should nte that I
> haven't tried doing this in over a year now... maybe things have
> improved?)  Has anybody here managed it?

I use offlineimap it for gmail (works), iCloud (works) and a university
accout where they are running ... Exchange server.

Below is the relevant part of my .offlineimaprc file.

My offlineimap synchs to a local dovecot server (lucerne indexing
working!) and puts all folders from this account into a folder named
SUN.

I do the same for my other accounts, so I easily know which ones are
From which account.

But my guess is that the configuration of the Exchange server is probably
different - but if you use imap access at the moment, it should work.

Cheers,

Rainer

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## %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
## %% SUN %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
## %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

[Repository LocalSUN]
type = IMAP
remotehost = localhost
remoteuser = MYUSERNAME
remotepasseval = get_keychain_pass(account="MYUSERNAME")
holdconnectionopen = yes
maxconnections = 3
nametrans = lambda folder: re.sub('^SUN.', '', folder)
folderfilter = lambda folder: folder.startswith('SUN')
keepalive = 60
holdconnectionopen = yes

[Repository RemoteSUN]
type = IMAP
remotehost = imap.sun.ac.za
# port = 143
remoteuser = MYUSERNAME
remotepasseval = get_keychain_pass(account="MYUSERNAME")
######
maxconnections = 1
nametrans = lambda foldername: 'SUN.' + foldername
######
folderfilter = lambda folder: folder in ['INBOX']
## For now:
# readonly = true
# createfolders = false
######
keepalive = 60
holdconnectionopen = yes

[Account SUN]
localrepository =   LocalSUN
remoterepository = RemoteSUN
######
status_backend = sqlite
######
# postsynchook = ionice -c 3 chrt --idle 0 /bin/sh -c "notmuch new"
# postsynchook = ionice -c 3 chrt --idle 0 /bin/sh -c "notmuch new && afew --tag --verbose --new"
######
######
## For daemon mode
# Minutes between syncs
autorefresh = 2
# Number of quick-syncs between autorefreshes. Quick-syncs do not update if the
# only changes were to IMAP flags
quick = 10
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>
> Thanks,
> eric

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