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by aboardRat4 246 days ago
Seems like a clone of https://gitlab.com/Lockywolf/imap-idle-mail-checker/
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The README for that project mentions IDLE, but not CONDSTORE.

So what happens if you lose your connection to the server? How do you get up to date with the current state?

mbsync does it.

It's separation of concerns, the monitor only checks that something has changed, while mbsync does the synchronisation.

Except it's only imap->maildir. ImapGoose also does the reverse