How To Install isync on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install isync
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is isync
isync is:
mbsync/isync is a command line application which synchronizes mailboxes; currently Maildir and IMAP4 mailboxes are supported. New messages, message deletions and flag changes can be propagated both ways. isync is suitable for use in IMAP-disconnected mode.
The main application was much improved in version 1.0. Those improvements lead to interface changes and the application being renamed to mbsync. The application isync is now only a wrapper to keep compatibility with earlier versions.
Features:
- Fine-grained selection of synchronization operations to perform
- Synchronizes single mailboxes or entire mailbox collections
- Partial mirrors possible: keep only the latest messages locally
- Trash functionality: backup messages before removing them IMAP features:
- Security: supports TLS/SSL via imaps: (port 993) and STARTTLS; CRAM-MD5 for authentication
- Supports NAMESPACE for simplified configuration
- Pipelining for maximum speed (currently only partially implemented)
There are three methods to install isync
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install isync Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install isync
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install isync
Install isync Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install isync
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install isync
Install isync Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install isync
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install isync
How To Uninstall isync on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the isync
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove isync
Uninstall isync And Its Dependencies
To uninstall isync
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove isync
Remove isync Configurations and Data
To remove isync
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge isync
Remove isync configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove isync
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge isync
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install isync
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.