From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/14509 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prad Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: my vs maildir Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2011 10:38:08 -0800 Message-ID: <87k4in5ey7.fsf@towardsfreedom.com> References: <87aajmrkgb.fsf@towardsfreedom.com> <87wrmpnfvm.fsf@towardsfreedom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1293993520 21767 80.91.229.12 (2 Jan 2011 18:38:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 18:38:40 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 02 19:38:36 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PZSpA-0006Ar-0l for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Jan 2011 19:38:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49922 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PZSp9-0007d4-09 for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Jan 2011 13:38:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=59408 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PZSp5-0007cc-Dw for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Jan 2011 13:38:32 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PZSp4-0002Qr-Hc for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Jan 2011 13:38:31 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:45528) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PZSp4-0002Ql-Ad for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Jan 2011 13:38:30 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PZSp2-00067F-FX for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Jan 2011 19:38:28 +0100 Original-Received: from 70.67.160.177 ([70.67.160.177]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 02 Jan 2011 19:38:28 +0100 Original-Received: from prad by 70.67.160.177 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 02 Jan 2011 19:38:28 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 38 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.67.160.177 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:2D054uxJ7U483l81w7xhbMBHwwQ= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:14509 Archived-At: Richard Riley writes: > Possibly you could post your set up? I am a little confused now. You are > running a local Dovecot? (on your machine or on a local server?). > .emacs: (setq imap-shell-program '("MAIL=maildir:$HOME/Mail /usr/lib/dovecot/imap")) .gnus: (setq gnus-parameters '(("Mail:.*" ;"^nnimap\\+Mail:INBOX" (gcc-self . t)))) (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnimap "Mail" (nnimap-stream shell)))) those are the relevant parts to getting in with dovecot. there is no dovecot running now which it was doing before and i had access to it through .authinfo and my personal login data. > You then also don't need nnmairix. You can use dovecot's own indexing > via nnir. > i tried that last night, but haven't gotten it to work yet though it looks pretty straight-forward to me. i may post questions later if i'm not successful. however, i rather like mairix as indicated in my mairix problems post and it may be more suitable as my emails grow - just haven't gotten that to work fully either. > You saying "imap without running a server" is the bit that throws me. > ya that's the neat idea brett provided. it seems i can use imap from dovecot without having a daemon running. -- in friendship, prad