nnmaildir vs nnimap (dovecot@localhost)

nnmaildir vs nnimap (dovecot@localhost)

[Saša Janiška]

Hello,

at the moment I use nnmaildir back-end to access all my emails - several
accounts + ~65k old archive. For fetching messages and feeding my
~/Maildir I use mbsync + notmuch as search engine.

in #gnus I did ask about pro/cons in using nnimap back-end by having
dovecot running locally on localhost, but would like to get some input
here?

Since I like notmuch's query capabilities, I wonder if I can keep using
it along with nnimap/dovecot?

Any other pro/cons?

I was also considering to use getmail to fetch/sort/scan my email, but
decided to stay with mbsync since I have a need to occasionally check
email with my Android phone and will delegate sorting/scanning to the
provider's server.


Sincerely,
Gour

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Re: nnmaildir vs nnimap (dovecot@localhost)

[wgreenhouse]

Hi,

Saša Janiška <gour@atmarama.com> writes:

> Since I like notmuch's query capabilities, I wonder if I can keep using
> it along with nnimap/dovecot?
>
> Any other pro/cons?

You would need to set up notmuch to point to dovecot's directory where
the mail is being stored (~/.mail in my shell provider's setup,
apparently). In Gnus, you must also customize
`nnir-notmuch-remove-prefix' to the same directory. Also, notmuch must
be using one of the backends that adhreres to a "one-message, one-file"
paradigm (notmuch is not compatible with mbox, for example, but dovecot
is).

--wgreenhouse


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Re: nnmaildir vs nnimap (dovecot@localhost)

[Eric Abrahamsen]

wgreenhouse <wgreenhouse@tilde.club> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Saša Janiška <gour@atmarama.com> writes:
>
>> Since I like notmuch's query capabilities, I wonder if I can keep using
>> it along with nnimap/dovecot?
>>
>> Any other pro/cons?
>
> You would need to set up notmuch to point to dovecot's directory where
> the mail is being stored (~/.mail in my shell provider's setup,
> apparently). In Gnus, you must also customize
> `nnir-notmuch-remove-prefix' to the same directory. Also, notmuch must
> be using one of the backends that adhreres to a "one-message, one-file"
> paradigm (notmuch is not compatible with mbox, for example, but dovecot
> is).

In my experience, this doesn't work because notmuch returns filenames as
search results, and nnimap requires article UIDs to actually fetch the
articles, and there's no mapping between the two. All this is hazy to
me, and I would be happy to be proven wrong!


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Re: nnmaildir vs nnimap (dovecot@localhost)

[황병희]

Saša Janiška <gour@atmarama.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> at the moment I use nnmaildir back-end to access all my emails - several
> accounts + ~65k old archive. For fetching messages and feeding my
> ~/Maildir I use mbsync + notmuch as search engine.
>
> in #gnus I did ask about pro/cons in using nnimap back-end by having
> dovecot running locally on localhost, but would like to get some input
> here?
>
> Since I like notmuch's query capabilities, I wonder if I can keep using
> it along with nnimap/dovecot?
>
> Any other pro/cons?
>
> I was also considering to use getmail to fetch/sort/scan my email, but
> decided to stay with mbsync since I have a need to occasionally check
> email with my Android phone and will delegate sorting/scanning to the
> provider's server.
>
>
> Sincerely,
> Gour

[another comments]
I am only Gnus user. Unless it is heavy traffice like as LKML, nnimap is
not bad in Gnus.

Sincerely, Gnus fan Byung-Hee

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