This sounds pretty useful for synchronizing mail on my laptop:
isync - imap<->maildir mailbox synchronize
http://www.sigpipe.org/isync/
It was written by the author of Mutt; here is what he has to say
about why he wrote it:
http://www.advogato.org/person/scandal/
> 21 Dec 2000
>
> Finally got the itch to start a new programming project. I had
> been using Mutt's IMAP4 support to read my work mail from home,
> but reading several hundred messages takes a long time. It's fine
> for occasional use, but painful for daily use. So I decided what
> I needed was a program to working in disconnected mode, with
> changes synched up with the server. Looking around didn't turn up
> anything (lots of clients with IMAP support, but not disconnected
> support). So for the last three days I've been hacking away on
> isync. It's a nifty little tool which syncs a IMAP4 remote
> mailbox with a local maildir mailbox, with support for SSL. I
> created some Mutt macros an now I have pretty seamless
> disconnected mode support... Syncin the mailbox takes about 2
> seconds at most, which is tons better than the previous
> situation.
more details on isync:
http://www.sigpipe.org/isync/
> isync - imap<->maildir mailbox synchronize
>
> isync is a command line utility for synchronizing a remote IMAP
> mailbox with a local maildir-style mailbox. This is useful for
> working in disconnected mode, such as on a laptop. Modifications
> made locally and remotely are synchronized so that no message
> status flags are lost.
>
> Features
>
> Fast mode for fetching new mail only
> Supports imaps: (port 993) TLS/SSL connections
> Supports STARTTLS (RFC2595)
> Supports NAMESPACE (RFC2342)
>
> Interoperability
>
> isync has been tested with the following IMAP4 servers:
>
> Microsoft Exchange 2000 IMAP4rev1 server version 6.0.4417.0
> Courier-IMAP 1.2.3
> UW imap-2000
> Cyrus 1.5.14
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