Re: isync plus dovecot?

[Rainer@krugs.de (Rainer M. Krug)]

Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> 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.

Yes please - I would be interested as well. Could you provide some
keywords to search for?

Rainer


>
>> 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
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