From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/83170 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rainer@krugs.de (Rainer M. Krug) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: isync plus dovecot? Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 11:17:42 +0200 Message-ID: <87sj1m9d8p.fsf@krugs.de> References: <874ne3xwpu.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87d2srf4yp.fsf@uwo.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1368795512 5416 80.91.229.3 (17 May 2013 12:58:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 12:58:32 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M31436@lists.math.uh.edu Fri May 17 14:58:29 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 1UdKEu-0000S1-SC for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 17 May 2013 14:58:29 +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 1UdKDl-0005NV-5Z; Fri, 17 May 2013 07:57:17 -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 1UdGpa-0004GY-H2 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 17 May 2013 04:20:06 -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 1UdGpY-0003ta-UW for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 17 May 2013 04:20:06 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UdGpX-00054q-HP for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 17 May 2013 11:20:03 +0200 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UdGpX-0005W9-41 for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 17 May 2013 11:20:03 +0200 Original-Received: from arn78-1-88-186-171-7.fbx.proxad.net ([88.186.171.7]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 17 May 2013 11:20:03 +0200 Original-Received: from Rainer by arn78-1-88-186-171-7.fbx.proxad.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 17 May 2013 11:20:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 49 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: arn78-1-88-186-171-7.fbx.proxad.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:QB5BhK5VW/B37/Gw6hQqluSvmh4= X-Spam-Score: -2.5 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:83170 Archived-At: Dan Christensen writes: > 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. 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 > > >