Re: Setting up Dovecot [Was => Re: gnus fetching same mails again and again (pop)]

[coroa@online.de (Jonas Hörsch)]

On Mon, Apr 16 2012, Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala wrote:

>>
>>> I couldn't get Dovecot working.
>>
>
> - restarted dovecot
>   ,----
>   | raghava-note:/ $ sudo service dovecot restart
>   | dovecot start/running, process 8639
>   `----

it should not be necessary: if you want to invoke it via nnimap-stream
shell: it doesn't even have to be running. i don't have to start the
dovecot server to use /usr/lib/dovecot/imap.f

>
>   ,----
>   | (setq imap-shell-program "/usr/lib/dovecot/imap")
>   |
>   | (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
>   |              '(nnimap "localimap"
>   |                       (nnimap-address "localhost")
>   |                       (nnimap-stream shell)))


i'm using dovecot via shell invocation quite successfully for some time
now. this is what i use as gnus-setup. so basically the same you already
have minus nnimap-address and plus the stderr suppression:


  (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
               '(nnimap "dovecot"
                        (nnimap-stream shell)
                        (nnir-search-engine imap)))
  
  (setq imap-shell-program '("/usr/lib/dovecot/imap 2> /dev/null"))


i don't need any additional authentification. no password, username,
whatsoever.

you might want to try what happens if you invoke /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
in any shell, for me this looks like:

* PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS SPECIAL-USE] Logged in as coroa


i'm using dovecot 2.1.4 on archlinux. i read that for some older
versions you actually want to call it via

/usr/sbin/dovecot --exec-mail imap

instead of /usr/lib/do...


just some random, perhaps helpful information by my side,

have fun,
jonas