From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/77610 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Erik Colson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus and Gmail? Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 07:57:52 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87oc5mg9lx.fsf@gandalf.home.thebuble.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299567496 1402 80.91.229.12 (8 Mar 2011 06:58:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 06:58:16 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M25933@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Mar 08 07:58:11 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pwqrz-0003C3-2q for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2011 07:58:11 +0100 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 1Pwqrn-0000Uw-Ig; Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:57:59 -0600 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 1Pwqrl-0000UV-UV for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:57:57 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Pwqrk-0004en-Do for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:57:57 -0600 Original-Received: from 30.mail-out.ovh.net ([213.186.62.213]) by quimby.gnus.org with smtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Pwqrj-0005MP-8N for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2011 07:57:55 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 27201 invoked by uid 503); 8 Mar 2011 06:50:16 -0000 Original-Received: from b9.ovh.net (HELO mail637.ha.ovh.net) (213.186.33.59) by 30.mail-out.ovh.net with SMTP; 8 Mar 2011 06:50:16 -0000 Original-Received: from b0.ovh.net (HELO queueout) (213.186.33.50) by b0.ovh.net with SMTP; 8 Mar 2011 09:01:17 +0200 Original-Received: from 213.219.153.20.adsl.dyn.edpnet.net (HELO localhost) (erik.colson@beavernet.be@213.219.153.20) by ns0.ovh.net with SMTP; 8 Mar 2011 09:01:15 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Bill Harris's message of "Tue, 08 Mar 2011 04:08:17 +0000 (UTC)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110014 (No Gnus v0.14) Emacs/24.0.50 (darwin) X-Ovh-Tracer-Id: 15292816959723955030 X-Ovh-Remote: 213.219.153.20 (213.219.153.20.adsl.dyn.edpnet.net) X-Ovh-Local: 213.186.33.20 (ns0.ovh.net) X-Spam-Check: DONE|U 0.500068/N X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:77610 Archived-At: Bill Harris writes: > Olivier Sirven gmail.com> writes: > >> I'm using gmail too for my emails and my suggestion is to work with >> the IMAP protocol. That being said, their IMAP server is pretty slow so >> the solution I found which is working just fine is to use offlineimap to >> sync my gmail account with a local dovecot imap server. >> This way everything is fast as light. Olivier (and maybe others), Are you synchronizing IMAP to IMAP or are you synchronizing IMAP to MAILDIR and then serving the local MAILDIR as IMAP dovecot ? I'm synching IMAP to MAILDIR and experience some oddities, but not sure if they can be attributed to offlineimap or dovecot or gnus or any combination... Please, mail your experiences Best, -- erik colson ecocode.net