Re: blog post on gnus, dovecot, and lucene

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Vincent Bernat <bernat@luffy.cx> writes:

>  ❦  7 octobre 2014 13:43 +0800, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> :
>
>> I mentioned a bit ago that I had shifted my gnus/dovecot setup, and
>> would blog about it. I finally did that:
>>
>> http://ericabrahamsen.net/tech/2014/oct/gnus-dovecot-lucene.html
>>
>> The gist of it is how to move to an always-running dovecot daemon, fed
>> by isync, and incorporating lucene searches into that.
>
> Note that you don't have to run dovecot as a server. You can run it as a
> process. In mbsyncrc: 
>
> Tunnel "/usr/lib/dovecot/imap -o mail_location=maildir:~/.mbsync/mails/XXXXX"
>
> In Gnus:
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC elisp
> (nnimap-stream shell)
> (nnimap-shell-program "/usr/lib/dovecot/imap -o mail_location=maildir:~/.mbsync/mails/XXXXX")
> #+END_SRC

Yes, hence the section titled "The Problem" in that blog post :) Perhaps
I could have made that clearer!

So far as I can tell, if you're calling dovecot as a process, you can't
integrate lucene text indexing -- that only works when running dovecot
as a daemon.

In fact that was the whole impetus for the shift, and the blog post:
going from dovecot-the-process to dovecot-the-daemon, because of the
need for search indexing.

E