From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/16076 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gour Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: setup for imap server with many users Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 21:28:36 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87pq153tio.fsf@gmail.com> <87ehhk52ea.fsf@gmail.com> 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 1358368142 25114 80.91.229.3 (16 Jan 2013 20:29:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 20:29:02 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 16 21:29:21 2013 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 1TvZbq-0003BD-HJ for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 21:29:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47910 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TvZbZ-0003el-Ui for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 15:29:01 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:40118) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TvZbW-0003eY-2g for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 15:28:59 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TvZbU-00011b-Gs for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 15:28:58 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:44439) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TvZbU-00010Q-9c for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 15:28:56 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TvZbg-0002ud-Rc for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 21:29:08 +0100 Original-Received: from 93-139-168-72.adsl.net.t-com.hr ([93.139.168.72]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 21:29:08 +0100 Original-Received: from gour by 93-139-168-72.adsl.net.t-com.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 21:29:08 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 70 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 93-139-168-72.adsl.net.t-com.hr X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 3.8.1 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-Face: 3Cy8q3pLN"sFiKpp%e^3=GTSm2xV5z:O1:| :WC~ei/w@ 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:16076 Archived-At: On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 19:55:09 +0000 William Gardella wrote: > Wow. Perhaps I'm mistaken, but I've never seen any such setup for > auth-source and have no clue how you would support it. Heh, too bad I do not have time-machine to go in the past to demonstrate you. :-) > All going to your Emacs and Gnus? It might make more sense to give > each of them their own Emacs initfile and system user. No. They use Claws-mail which is easier for them. Moreover, for their minimal usage of computer, there is no sense to create system account for them...and Claws-mail operates normally in this setup where I now access mail for each 'user' from corresponding dovecot's virtual user...so, don't understand fully why it should be problem for Gnus? I would like to (again) use Gnus to take advantage of orgmode's support for it. > FTR, the maildir backend isn't particularly buggy these days. I'm aware some time has passed in between, but posts like this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2587291/using-maildir-as-a-backend-for-gnus has made me think that nnimap is (still) better solution. > Also, the local Dovecot hack for Gnus pertains mostly to an era when > nnimap was too slow for acceptable use, which is no longer really the > case. Really? Do you mean latest Gnus or the one coming with Emacs-24 'cause I'm running Debian Wheezy and have 23.4.1? > Particularly with the Agent and (setq gnus-asynchronous t), its > performance is just fine. Thank you. I was not aware of the above setting. > If I were you, I'd cut out the Dovecot step entirely and just use > Gnus+nnimap directly to the remote hosts. OK, but this still involves Gnus talking to several IMAP servers and fetching mail for several different users? How the setup should look in such case? > It is much less of a "Rube Goldberg machine" than the setup you > currently have. Yes, I agree that present (past) setup is a bit convoluted due to performance issues. Sincerely, Gour -- One who is not disturbed in mind even amidst the threefold miseries or elated when there is happiness, and who is free from attachment, fear and anger, is called a sage of steady mind. http://www.atmarama.net | Hlapicina (Croatia) | GPG: 52B5C810