mbsync
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
0warn against
Dec 10, 2025first mention
Oct 22, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“mirror your various inboxes (Gmail, iCloud, proton, non-corporate outlook) with mbsync”
self-hosts a homelabon “What I self-host”
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“patched mbsync to support the Auth header”
switched from imapsyncon “Migrate Wizard – IMAP Based Email Migration Tool”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Claude Duet 1 mention
- What I self-host 1 mention
- Ask HN: Good IMAP Email Clients? 1 mention
- Doom entirely from DNS records 1 mention
- Migrate Wizard – IMAP Based Email Migration Tool 1 mention
- Putting email in its place with Emacs and Mu4e 1 mention
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All comments 6
“with mbsync running to download all the mail from all my email accounts locally”
“mirror your various inboxes (Gmail, iCloud, proton, non-corporate outlook) with mbsync”
“I use mbsync, to Maildir”
“once you used something like mbsync/msmtp to store your IMAP mail locally”
“patched mbsync to support the Auth header”
“I connect to with mbsyc and msmtp.”