Re: isync plus dovecot?

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

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 am using offlineimap, and I also saw many complains (and had a few
problems myself and looked at isync briefly), but it is now running solidly, after I reduced the
number of emails in a folder (or tag, as I am syncing from  gmail to
localhost, also dovecot).

One reason which kept me at offlineimap is that it seems to be more
widely used then isync.

So I can only say it works for me.

Cheers,

Rainer


>
> 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.
>
> 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. I don't know if it's
> possible, and worse I don't really understand what's going on well
> enough to really figure it out logically.
>
> Is it enough just to have mbsync dump to a Maildir directly, and then
> tell gnus to access that maildir via dovecot?
>
> Any pointers very welcome!
>
> Eric
>
>
>
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