From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/83344 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: isync plus dovecot? Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 11:52:35 -0700 Message-ID: References: <874ne3xwpu.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87wqqzcqng.fsf@krugs.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1371409376 739 80.91.229.3 (16 Jun 2013 19:02:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 19:02:56 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M31608@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Jun 16 21:02:55 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 1UoIE2-0007DD-T0 for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:02:55 +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 1UoID5-0000cM-9N; Sun, 16 Jun 2013 14:01:55 -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 1UoID4-0000cB-7j for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 16 Jun 2013 14:01:54 -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 1UoID2-0006iP-Qp for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 16 Jun 2013 14:01:54 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UoID1-0003Q6-Dx for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:01:51 +0200 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UoICz-0005JG-Os for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:01:49 +0200 Original-Received: from 107-219-149-247.lightspeed.sntcca.sbcglobal.net ([107.219.149.247]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:01:49 +0200 Original-Received: from dave by 107-219-149-247.lightspeed.sntcca.sbcglobal.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:01:49 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 42 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 107-219-149-247.lightspeed.sntcca.sbcglobal.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.2.93 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:5t78F8vf7VRx1akfVQzDn9/d8CE= X-Spam-Score: -3.0 (---) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:83344 Archived-At: Well, I have extensive experience with both offlineimap and mbsync, and the offlineimap experience was essentially a neverending series of problems and hacking. Ever since I set up mbsync (from the isync project), and added my idle script wrapper, I don't think about it at all. It Just Works. > > 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 >> >> >> > <#secure method=pgpmime mode=sign> > -- Dave Abrahams