From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/17810 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: new gnus setup with Dovecot Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 22:19:03 +0800 Message-ID: <87oadrdcbs.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87y4cwu5rg.fsf@jnanam.net> <87lh8wee21.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <874mfk8axp.fsf@jnanam.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1450189539 11928 80.91.229.3 (15 Dec 2015 14:25:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 14:25:39 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 15 15:25:24 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a8qXa-0001qy-1B for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2015 15:25:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37111 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a8qXZ-0005XH-Fb for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2015 09:25:21 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59561) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a8qXT-0005Wu-UI for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2015 09:25:20 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a8qXP-00051F-DR for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2015 09:25:15 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:56517) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a8qXP-000515-7I for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2015 09:25:11 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a8qXI-0001T6-PP for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2015 15:25:05 +0100 Original-Received: from 114.248.1.146 ([114.248.1.146]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 15 Dec 2015 15:25:04 +0100 Original-Received: from eric by 114.248.1.146 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 15 Dec 2015 15:25:04 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 50 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 114.248.1.146 User-Agent: Gnus/5.130014 (Ma Gnus v0.14) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ma4jgS00OyzmdYg/2VjrVmE/q8Q= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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: , Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:17810 Archived-At: Benjamin Slade writes: >> I wrote this last year, and it's more focused on searching, but the >> basic setup should be plenty viable for you. See if this helps! >> >> https://ericabrahamsen.net/tech/2014/oct/gnus-dovecot-lucene.html > > Thanks for this. It looks very close to what I need to set up. Multiple > accounts etc. I was originally thinking to try to piggyback the Gnus > setup on the offlineimap setup I already have for mu4e (so that I could > continue to use both), but looking at the details of the setup, it seems > like it would be better to do a separate setup with mbsync and a > separate maildir for gnus. I don't know exactly what you're doing, but if the mails are all coming down to a single dovecot installation, it really shouldn't matter how you're feeding dovecot (offlineimap vs mbsync), or reading from it (gnus vs mu4e). Dovecot does a nice job of funneling everything into the same setup. > Does this setup synchronise well across machines? I have 3 different > machines that need to synchronise. For the older offlineimap setup of > http://roland.entierement.nu/blog/2010/09/08/gnus-dovecot-offlineimap-search-a-howto.html > , I note that he customises offlineimap.py to synchronise some Gnus > flags (expire). Can something equivalent be done with mbsync, or this is > no longer necessary? I can't tell you about custom flags, that's something I've never tried to do. Hopefully someone else might jump in with information that... I keep mail sync'ed between two different machines, and it works great. It worked okay when I was using Gmail as a backend, and since I switched my mail setup to self-hosted (also with Dovecot on the server), it works even better. It's been perfect synchronization, so far, though as I say I haven't tried custom flags. > Is the Lucien search solution working out well for you? One thing I do > really like about mu4e is the speed and flexibility of search. Lucene search works great. What's awkward is the IMAP search syntax, and particularly Gnus' interaction with it: the nnir search interface to IMAP seems unnecessarily clunky. I have extremely iffy results when doing date-based searches, but I don't know if I should blame dovecot/lucene, or gnus/nnir. So I guess yes on the speed, maybe not so much on the flexibility. HTH, Eric