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Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> Igor Sosa Mayor <joseleopoldo1792@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>>>
>>>> Igor Sosa Mayor <joseleopoldo1792@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Maintenance: I use offlineimap to sync my gmail account to a local
>>>>>> dovecot imap server, and after each sync, "notmuch" -new is called - so
>>>>>> no maintenance on my side.
>>>>>
>>>>> sorry for the noise... but is it somehow possible to see your dovecot
>>>>> config? I never managed to run a local dovecot imap server in
>>>>> archlinux...
>>>>>
>>>>> many thanks in advance!
>>>>
>>>> Here's my output of "doveconf -n". This is all the configuration I've
>>>> got, apart from /etc/dovecot/passwd.
>>>>
>>>
>>> thanks! this is local imap server, isn't it?
>>
>> Right, then Gnus connects via (for instance, for this email address):
>>
>> (nnimap "EA"
>> 	(nnimap-address "localhost")
>> 	(nnimap-stream network)
>> 	(nnimap-authenticator login)
>> 	(nnimap-user "eric@ericabrahamsen.net"))
>>
>
> Or like this:
>
> (nnimap "Maildir"
>         (nnimap-stream shell)
>         (nnimap-shell-program "/usr/local/opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap -o mail_location=maildir:$HOME/Maildir")))
>
> If you do it like this, it is not necessary to run the imap server
> daemon - no worries about security. And if I am correc=ct, you don't
> need to configure dovecot with the conf file, as you specify the
> parameters in the commandline.

Right -- I was originally doing that (single dovecot invocations), and
wrote the blog post above because I thought that I needed an
always-running daemon in order for FTS indexing to work. Later on I
discovered it's not really necessary, but on the other hand the daemon
hasn't bothered me any, so...