Re: IMAP + Agent

[Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com>]

John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com> writes:

>>>>>> Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com> writes:
>
>> I've posted numerous time about using Gnus with imap and agent using
>> multiple email accounts at the same provider. It doesnt work. Each time the
>> replies were vague, requently at odds with each other of the form "should
>> work" or "IMAP doesn work with the agent". What is the real state of play
>> these days? e.g
>
> I was never able to get nnimap to play well enough with the Agent for me to
> trust it.  I kept ending up with marks and unread counts going wonky, messages
> not getting downloaded although I'd used J s and set my default agent category
> predicate to `true', etc.
>
> Recently I've approached e-mail Nirvana by using offlineimap with Dovecot
> (using the full-text search backend with nnir) to essentially offload the
> concept of "offlineness" from Gnus entirely.  Now my e-mail server is always
> available, Internet or no.  In fact, I found this to be so much nicer in so
> many ways that I've switched to using Leafnode for NNTP as well (and nnmairix
> for doing article searches).  Now Gnus thinks the servers are always alive,
> and there's no more puzzling.
>
> If you're interested I could share configuration details with you, but there
> is a definite learning curve to this approach.  On the other hand, once it's
> all setup it's pretty bulletproof, with the added benefit that it conveys
> "offlineness" to every other Mail and News reader you have.
>
> John

I used to have a offlineimap setup - it was tricky to get it working
with 3 diferent gmail accounts though but I got there. Unfortunately
every now and again it hiccupped. Since Gnus started being much more
efficient with Gnus I moved to a Gnus "native" IMAP connection but would
really like it to play properly with the agent. Agent and Splitting just
confue the hell out of me ;) Thanks for the offer of sharing but I still
have my old setup somewhere but I its not important enough for me to go
back to at this
time. (http://osdir.com/ml/help-gnu-emacs-gnu/2010-08/msg00224.html).