Re: isync plus dovecot?

[Rainer@krugs.de (Rainer M. Krug)]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> Rainer@krugs.de (Rainer M. Krug) writes:
>
>> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>>
>>> I'm finally trying to ditch nnml for mail reading, and move to imap.
>>> Offlineimap plus dovecot seems to be a popular solution (I am offline a
>>> lot), but I also saw a lot of complaints about offlineimap, and the
>>> suggestion of isync/mbsync as a replacement.
>>
>> I am using offlineimap, and I also saw many complains (and had a few
>> problems myself and looked at isync briefly), but it is now running
>> solidly, after I reduced the
>> number of emails in a folder (or tag, as I am syncing from  gmail to
>> localhost, also dovecot).
>>
>> One reason which kept me at offlineimap is that it seems to be more
>> widely used then isync.
>>
>> So I can only say it works for me.
>
> Thanks! Anecdotal evidence is definitely important. I'm also using
> multiple gmail addresses, and have never bothered much with tags/folders
> as I've always used a mail client. I'm currently pulling down 55,000
> messages in one account's INBOX, do you think that's likely to cause me
> problems?

I experienced problems with my All Mail folder which was more then
200,000 messages, but, if I remember correctly,around 50,000 was
fine. So I would say: try it.

By the way: I am using offlineimap at the moment as daemon (not via
cron) and it seems to be working a) faster and b) more stable.

Cheers,

Rainer


>
> Thanks again,
> Eric
>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Rainer
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Has anyone done that? I realize this isn't quite a gnus question, but
>>> I'm having a bit of trouble wrapping my head around this, and google
>>> isn't helping any.
>>>
>>> Specifically, you tell offlineimap to deliver to dovecot with a line
>>> like:
>>>
>>> preauthtunnel = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap -o mail_location=maildir:$HOME/Maildir
>>>
>>> I can't find the equivalent command for mbsync. I don't know if it's
>>> possible, and worse I don't really understand what's going on well
>>> enough to really figure it out logically.
>>>
>>> Is it enough just to have mbsync dump to a Maildir directly, and then
>>> tell gnus to access that maildir via dovecot?
>>>
>>> Any pointers very welcome!
>>>
>>> Eric
>>>
>>>
>>>
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