From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/14514 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: my vs maildir Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2011 21:02:54 +0100 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: <87aajmrkgb.fsf@towardsfreedom.com> <87wrmpnfvm.fsf@towardsfreedom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1294000815 20311 80.91.229.12 (2 Jan 2011 20:40:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 20:40:15 +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 21:40:10 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 1PZUin-00044r-Bd for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Jan 2011 21:40:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41304 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PZUim-0001ih-IR for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Jan 2011 15:40:08 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!uio.no!quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 65 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.183.18.158 Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1293998574 9373 85.183.18.158 (2 Jan 2011 20:02:54 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 20:02:54 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:85252 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:14514 Archived-At: prad writes: > 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. I doubt it will be since dovecot does the indexing for you as mails are added. Mairix is then yet another piece in the jigsaw - I used to use it but if Dovecot can index why not use that? Here's an extract from my dovecot.conf : this iis the thing that provides the indexing. ,---- | protocol imap { | mail_plugins = fts fts_squat | listen = *:143 | ssl_listen = *:993 | } | | plugin { | fts = squat | fts_squat = partial=4 full=10 | } `---- > >> 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. Why would you do that? The overhead of Dovecot running is pretty low. Doing it that way you incur the overhead of startup. With it being a server other programs like offlineimap can then talk to it when fetching your email and then storing it locally in dovecot for your email client to retrieve using imap. Just some other ideas you might consider.