From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/83153 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: isync plus dovecot? Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 14:30:53 +0800 Message-ID: <874ne3xwpu.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1368686048 6490 80.91.229.3 (16 May 2013 06:34:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 06:34:08 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M31419@lists.math.uh.edu Thu May 16 08:34:07 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UcrlP-0006RC-0l for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 16 May 2013 08:34:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Ucrik-000550-To; Thu, 16 May 2013 01:31:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Ucrih-00054n-6W for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 16 May 2013 01:31:19 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1Ucric-0002hP-45 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 16 May 2013 01:31:18 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Ucria-0000DR-4H for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 16 May 2013 08:31:12 +0200 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UcriW-0004GR-Fm for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 16 May 2013 08:31:08 +0200 Original-Received: from 114.250.129.45 ([114.250.129.45]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 16 May 2013 08:31:08 +0200 Original-Received: from eric by 114.250.129.45 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 16 May 2013 08:31:08 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 114.250.129.45 User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:aVQD+rLBYvGjhRmVnrO7uY6WcCs= X-Spam-Score: 0.8 (/) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin (3.3.1 2010-03-16) analysis follows Bayesian score: 0.0010 Ham tokens: 0.000-2229--13488h-0s--0d--H*u:Emacs, 0.000-651--3940h-0s--0d--H*u:Gnus, 0.000-614--3715h-0s--0d--H*UA:linux, 0.000-614--3714h-0s--0d--H*u:linux, 0.000-604--3653h-0s--0d--H*UA:gnu Spam tokens: 0.990-6288--365h-33172s--0d--HTo:D*gnus.org, 0.990-6585--390h-34778s--0d--H*RU:quimby.gnus.org, 0.990-6585--390h-34778s--0d--HX-Spam-Relays-External:quimby.gnus.org, 0.987-6484--491h-34780s--0d--H*RT:80.91.231.51, 0.987-6484--491h-34780s--0d--H*RT:quimby.gnus.org Autolearn status: no 2.1 FSL_HELO_BARE_IP_2 FSL_HELO_BARE_IP_2 1.2 RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO Received: contains an IP address used for HELO -0.6 RP_MATCHES_RCVD Envelope sender domain matches handover relay domain -0.0 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, no trust [80.91.229.3 listed in list.dnswl.org] -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0010] List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:83153 Archived-At: 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. 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