Hi :) I suspect that offlineimap isn't what I need for the wanted task: - to download emails from my providers server - to delete them from the server when the download is finished - to keep them on my computer, to get access to the emails from different Linux installs So I won't sync between my provider's server and my computer, but I'll sync between several mailers on my computer. I like to test offlineimap anyway. There are two issues: - the wanted language for my computer should be English, but the maildir directories always are generated in German. I never set anything, but the keyboard and the timezone to German, but first there wasn't a /etc/locale.conf, later I added this configuration file, but nothing changed [1] - neither Evolution, nor Kmail are able to use the generated maildir, resp. Evolution doesn't show the tons of mails of the INBOX, but instead the few mails of a folder called Entw&APw-rfe [2] FWIW I also installed Mutt, but I'll use a MUA with a GUI. [1] ################ ### 1. SETUP ### ################ /etc/rc.conf LOCALE="en_US.UTF-8" DAEMON_LOCALE="no" HARDWARECLOCK="localtime" TIMEZONE="Europe/Berlin" KEYMAP="de-latin1" /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/keyboard.conf Option "XkbLayout" "de" /etc/locale.conf No such file or directory ################ ### 2. SETUP ### ################ /etc/locale.conf LOCALE="en_US.UTF-8 I deleted .offlineimap and Maildir and set up a new Evolution accounds. [2] ##################### ### offlineimaprc ### ##################### ################################################## # General definitions ################################################## [general] metadata = ~/.offlineimap accounts = Spinymouse maxsyncaccounts = 1 ui = Blinkenlights fsync = true ################################################## # Mailbox name recorder ################################################## [mbnames] ### First I tried with this and different settings for sep #enabled = no #filename = ~/Mutt/muttrc.mailboxes #header = "mailboxes " #peritem = "+%(accountname)s/%(foldername)s" #sep =############ #footer = "\n" ################################################## # Accounts ################################################## [Account Spinymouse] localrepository = Spinymouse-local remoterepository = Spinymouse-remote [Repository Spinymouse-local] type = Maildir localfolders = ~/Maildir sep = / restoreatime = no [Repository Spinymouse-remote] type = IMAP remotehost = imap.alice-dsl.net ssl = yes remoteuser = ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net maxconnections = 2 holdconnectionopen = no subscribedonly = no readonly = False Regards, Ralf