Re: isync plus dovecot?

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca> writes:

> Rainer@krugs.de (Rainer M. Krug) writes:
>
>> Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca> writes:
>>
>>> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>>>
>>> I've used offlineimap for a couple of years, and I find it works well.
>>> I've posted on the offlineimap list a way to get it to sync some of
>>> the Gnus specific flags, like gnus-expire.  If you can't find the
>>> message, let me know and I'll dig it up.
>>
>> Yes please - I would be interested as well. Could you provide some
>> keywords to search for?
>
> Here's one place I described it:
>
>   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnus-english/2011-10/msg00052.html
>
> For convenience, I've copied the body of that message below.  I'm using
> offlineimap 6.3.5-rc3.
>
> Dan
>
> offlineimap doesn't sync custom flags by default.  The hack I use just
> monkeypatches the flagmap.  Put the following in .offlineimap.py:
>
> import offlineimap.imaputil as IU
> if not hasattr(IU, 'monkeypatchdone'):
>     IU.flagmap += [('gnus-expire','E'),
>                    ('gnus-dormant', 'Q'),
>                    ('gnus-save', 'V'),
>                    ('gnus-forward', 'W')]
>     IU.monkeypatchdone = True
>
> To activate this, you put
>
> pythonfile = ~/.offlineimap.py
>
> in your .offlineimaprc

This looks a bit like the instructions I started off following online:

http://roland.entierement.nu/blog/2010/09/08/gnus-dovecot-offlineimap-search-a-howto.html

I only realized after I failing to get it to work several times that
there's an update at the bottom of the blog post for versions of dovecot
over 2.0.