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[173.10.214.53]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id e64sm41478259yhm.4.2013.05.20.10.30.52 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 20 May 2013 10:30:52 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <874ne3xwpu.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (Eric Abrahamsen's message of "Thu, 16 May 2013 14:30:53 +0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAABGdBTUEAALGPC/xhBQAAAAFz UkdCAK7OHOkAAAAgY0hSTQAAeiYAAICEAAD6AAAAgOgAAHUwAADqYAAAOpgAABdwnLpRPAAAAA9Q TFRFHQ0IkHNCzrR27+bR////+BpO2wAAAAFiS0dEBI9o2VEAAAAJcEhZcwAAAEgAAABIAEbJaz4A AAGHSURBVDjLdZRRloMwCEVDZwOAGwiwgTbZ/94GSLTomUk/jF55Dwi2tf8X5do3L8k7jK2qqX1O MHPFLasv6+SRLNwWGKEUAUrrBZHjAvlAgfw6fMNVylSAKF9Q+UaY3/bzOYtVKUPKi2stk0+aJ9C9 5KdEDAehFeZawFCDKFczwaN6zJcKAUBkyF9gOhkb+C9y5G/lHpE9jNbBAlmgqM1sJwe1u0dGWNKj dnekypQ8hRrRIY9CUvmoICJ4DvRUegFD3APYWyWkV0Sk+yZE9OxEhbsVqTd5T5As+14rf/sBuhr6 0arMuzl5SsjhcQHJI6eeexpXHSTebkHABXRUqeHAt3Eqeh+fNYgQyc8i5QD3iLLNm/loO4QfUgsQ tKfHWFKIasWDfRi3FBTAMTWjby2eBYR739+WPYClOyBXIDJs7nxXTqXAqZnWqVTMYQEeD9AXwNfn uAE/p1Uhl4+TYhD85VWhl34OA5AXnJOeXSS+gNd7Nj39fToSYHma2cegyV//OYBE2P5dvxObadPA bTPSAAAAJXRFWHRkYXRlOmNyZWF0ZQAyMDEzLTA1LTIwVDA5OjE5OjU1LTA1OjAw6OYj/AAAACV0 RVh0ZGF0ZTptb2RpZnkAMjAxMy0wMi0xM1QxNToxNTo1OS0wNjowMGFLguQAAAAASUVORK5CYII= X-PGP-Key: http://draines.com/pubkey.asc.txt X-MSMTP: gmail X-Spam-Score: -3.0 (---) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:83184 Archived-At: Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > 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. > > Has anyone done that? I realize this isn't quite a gnus > question, > but I'm having a bit of trouble wrapping my head around this, > and > google isn't helping any. I'm using mbsync. I finally switched from offlineimap a year ago after it got into a state that I couldn't fix. My setup is: Gmail <-> mbsync <-> dovecot <-> nnimap dovecot essentially serves as a cache, with mbsync running every few minutes in a separate process. Even though g-g-get-new-news is pretty speedy (5-30s), I still use a dedicated Emacs for Gnus. It still talks over the Internet to Gmane. I used to use gnus-agent with nnimap and it worked fine. Now I only use it with nntp. I haven't had any major issues with mbsync. A couple of times it has gotten wedged from an unreliable network connection but I was able to recover by deleting its local state. It hasn't caused any headaches for me. This is isync 1.0.4 on Debian Wheezy. Happy to share more details if it would help! Drew