I'd like to keep messages locally only, something similar to POP3. My goal here is to use less storage space on my server as well as to reduce my attack surface a bit (I'm aware this will be utterly ineffective against any kind of determined adversary).
I think I've got this working but before transitioning to this setup as my daily driver I wanted to confirm I haven't missed something that could result in catastrophic consequences. I haven't seen anyone else with a similar setup, despite seeing requests for some kind of POP3 functionality from those more knowledgeable than I am, so I wouldn't be surprised if I've done something here I shouldn't have.
The following setup seems to be working. As far as I can tell, the only difference from POP3 seems to be that instead of deleting messages from the server upon poll, mbsync only deletes the messages off of the server after I manually archive each message. This works great for me as I practice Merlin Mann's Inbox Zero methodology.
Can anyone see any kind of fatal flaw in this setup?
IMAPAccount TEST1
Host REDACTED
Port 993
User REDACTED@REDACTED
PassCmd "pass pass/test1-email_passwords"
SSLType IMAPS
CertificateFile /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
IMAPStore TEST1-remote
Account TEST1
MaildirStore TEST1-local
Path ~/.mail/TEST1/
Inbox ~/.mail/TEST1/INBOX
Trash ~/.mail/TEST1/Trash
Subfolders Verbatim
Channel TEST1
Far :TEST1-remote:
Near :TEST1-local:
Patterns INBOX
Expunge Far
CopyArrivalDate yes
Sync All
Create Both
SyncState *
I'd like to keep messages locally only, something similar to POP3. My goal here is to use less storage space on my server as well as to reduce my attack surface a bit (I'm aware this will be utterly ineffective against any kind of determined adversary).
I think I've got this working but before transitioning to this setup as my daily driver I wanted to confirm I haven't missed something that could result in catastrophic consequences. I haven't seen anyone else with a similar setup, despite seeing requests for some kind of POP3 functionality from those more knowledgeable than I am, so I wouldn't be surprised if I've done something here I shouldn't have.
The following setup seems to be working. As far as I can tell, the only difference from POP3 seems to be that instead of deleting messages from the server upon poll, mbsync only deletes the messages off of the server after I manually archive each message. This works great for me as I practice Merlin Mann's Inbox Zero methodology.
Can anyone see any kind of fatal flaw in this setup?