Welcome to OfflineIMAP
OfflineIMAP is a tool to simplify your e-mail reading. With OfflineIMAP, you can read the same mailbox from multiple computers. You get a current copy of your messages on each computer, and changes you make one place will be visible on all other systems. For instance, you can delete a message on your home computer, and it will appear deleted on your work computer as well. OfflineIMAP is also useful if you want to use a mail reader that does not have IMAP support, has poor IMAP support, or does not provide disconnected operation.
OfflineIMAP works on pretty much any POSIX operating system, such as Linux, BSD operating systems, MacOS X, Solaris, etc.
OfflineIMAP is a Free Software project licensed under the GNU General Public License. You can download it for free, and you can modify it. In fact, you are encouraged to contribute to OfflineIMAP, and doing so is fast and easy.
For more information on OfflineIMAP's featureset, see the OfflineIMAP manual (link below).
Starting Points
- The OfflineIMAP Manual (HTML or PDF). Includes:
- Feature list
- Installation instructions
- Description of how OfflineIMAP works
- ScreenShots of OfflineIMAP in action
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
- Annotated offlineimap.conf file, with full documentation on the file and examples
- Minimal offlineimap.conf, which shows how simple it is to get started
Using This Site:
- Editing Wiki Pages
- Reporting Bugs
- Account questions, such as recovering a lost password, logging in, etc.
- Other Software.Complete.Org Projects
- More Information on Software.Complete.Org
Downloads: Source and Binaries
- Source releases are available from the downloads area on this site; just click the Files tab above.
- The latest development trees are available via Git; see below.
- You can find Debian packages from the OfflineIMAP Debian Page.
- RPMs and packages for many other Linux and BSD distributions are also included with your distribution.
Contributing to OfflineIMAP
You can always download the source from the Downloads page and attach diffs. But it's far better, both for you and for me, if you use Git.
Please see our 5-Minute Git Guide. You can check out the OfflineIMAP repository with:
git clone git://git.complete.org/offlineimap
You can also help by adding information to this wiki.
Mailing List
You can access the OfflineIMAP mailing list archives at offlineimap@complete.org/">http://lists.complete.org/offlineimap@complete.org/. There is also a web interface to subscribe and unsubscribe at http://www.complete.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi.