From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/83156 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Christensen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: isync plus dovecot? Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 14:07:42 +0100 Message-ID: <87d2srf4yp.fsf@uwo.ca> References: <874ne3xwpu.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1368711080 12755 80.91.229.3 (16 May 2013 13:31:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 13:31:20 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M31422@lists.math.uh.edu Thu May 16 15:31:19 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 1UcyH2-0005tx-Ix for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 16 May 2013 15:31:12 +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 1UcyFd-00074i-59; Thu, 16 May 2013 08:29:45 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Ucxuf-0006yE-5i for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 16 May 2013 08:08:05 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1UcxuZ-0007HC-LO for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 16 May 2013 08:08:04 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UcxuX-0001Ef-Np for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 16 May 2013 15:07:57 +0200 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UcxuX-0004Ee-3Q for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 16 May 2013 15:07:57 +0200 Original-Received: from a85-138-74-16.cpe.netcabo.pt ([85.138.74.16]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 16 May 2013 15:07:57 +0200 Original-Received: from jdc by a85-138-74-16.cpe.netcabo.pt with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 16 May 2013 15:07:57 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 35 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: a85-138-74-16.cpe.netcabo.pt User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:0XZoMvE+66oaRZLvIm969mowdgk= X-Spam-Score: -2.5 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:83156 Archived-At: Eric Abrahamsen 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'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. > 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. Nothing in my .offlineimaprc mentions dovecot, and I don't use a preauthtunnel. I just tell offlineimap to connect to an IMAP server at 127.0.0.1 and to another IMAP server at a certain host name. > Is it enough just to have mbsync dump to a Maildir directly, and then > tell gnus to access that maildir via dovecot? That might work too, but I decided to let dovecot be in charge of the Maildir directory, and make both Gnus and offlineimap interact with that directory via the IMAP protocol. My method of syncing the non-standard flags relies on this. I'm also curious to hear about alternatives to offlineimap, so I hope some people reply with their experience. Dan