Re: isync plus dovecot?

[Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>]

on Wed May 15 2013, Eric Abrahamsen <eric-AT-ericabrahamsen.net> 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.
>
> 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!

This may be cominig very late, but: http://onmsg.github.com might still
be of some use to you.  I haven't touched the stuff in some time now,
but it still works great for me.

Here's my fairly-complicated .mbsyncrc, including the preauth tunneling
thing:

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IMAPAccount boostpro-gmail-account
Host imap.gmail.com
User dave@boostpro.com
UseIMAPS yes
# RequireSSL yes
CertificateFile ~/.certs/imap.gmail.com.pem
Pass "################"

IMAPStore boostpro-gmail-store
Account boostpro-gmail-account

IMAPAccount local-dovecot
Host localhost
User dave
Tunnel /opt/local/libexec/dovecot/imap

IMAPStore local-dovecot-store
Account local-dovecot

Channel boostpro-active-channel
Master :boostpro-gmail-store:
Slave :local-dovecot-store:
Patterns "INBOX" "travel" "apple"
Create Both
# Sync ReNew Delete Flags
Expunge Both
SyncState ~/Library/Data/mbsync/boostpro-gmail-sync-state/

Channel boostpro-list-channel
Master :boostpro-gmail-store:
Slave :local-dovecot-store:
Patterns "committee"
Create Slave
Sync New Flags
SyncState ~/Library/Data/mbsync/boostpro-gmail-sync-state/

Channel boostpro-gmail-channel
Master :boostpro-gmail-store:
Slave :local-dovecot-store:
Patterns "[Gmail]/All Mail" "committee"
Create Slave
Sync New
SyncState ~/Library/Data/mbsync/boostpro-gmail-sync-state/

Channel boostpro-spam-channel
Master :boostpro-gmail-store:
Slave :local-dovecot-store:
Patterns "[Gmail]/Spam"
Create Master
Sync Push
SyncState ~/Library/Data/mbsync/boostpro-gmail-sync-state/

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Dave Abrahams