From: Myles English <mylesenglish@gmail.com>
To: Eric Schulte <eric.schulte@gmx.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: mail integration, advice?
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 21:08:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8762claqf9.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sjfpti15.fsf@gmx.com> (Eric Schulte's message of "Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:34:46 -0400")
Hi Eric,
>> On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:34:46 -0400, Eric Schulte said:
> Myles English <mylesenglish@gmail.com> writes:
>> I use gnus, offline imap, dovecot, notmuch, msmtp, bbdb3. And
>> org-mode capture including links to emails works fine.
>>
>> The end result is very good and stable through updates
Having said that I did have trouble with offlineimap 6.4-ish and so i am
still on 6.3.3-1 but 6.5.2 is out so will give that a go soon.
>> (I am using Arch Linux too) but I have to say though it did take a
>> LOT of configurating.
>>
> As a long-time user of gnus with imap my only complaints are the
> inability to work offline and the relatively poor sorting rules of
> my web-mail imap servers. It sounds like dovecot and offline-imap
> could solve both of these problems.
> Was the offline-imap/dovecot combo difficult to configure?
Mostly, it was not difficult, the one thing that was tricky was setting
up dovecot to handle more than one account. I ended up doing this:
# leave as the default setting
mail_location = maildir:/home/myles/Maildir
# specify a password file
passdb {
args = /etc/dovecot/passwd
default_fields =
deny = no
driver = passwd-file
master = no
override_fields =
pass = no
}
# in /etc/dovecot/passwd overide the maildir for each of my three accounts:
mylesenglish:{plain}PASSWD_FOR_MYLES:1000:1000::/home/myles::userdb_mail=maildir:/home/myles/Maildir/mylesenglish
rh:{plain}PASSWORD_FOR_RH:1000:1000::/home/myles::userdb_mail=maildir:/home/myles/Maildir/rh
ed:{plain}PASSWORD_FOR_ED:1000:1000::/home/myles::userdb_mail=maildir:/home/myles/Maildir/ed
> Are there perhaps online instructions to which you could direct me?
> FWIW I also use Arch as my OS.
I remember this was quite useful if a bit outdated, it is a bit skimpy on Dovecot though:
http://roland.entierement.nu/blog/2010/09/08/gnus-dovecot-offlineimap-search-a-howto.html
The command 'dovecot -a' is useful to dump your config to stout then you
can easily tell what you have changed in between attempts.
I imagine that because you are already /au fait/ with gnus you have half
the battle won. If need be I can dump my whole config but then where is
the fun in that?
Good luck.
Myles
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-27 20:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-26 13:47 mail integration, advice? Matt Price
2012-04-26 14:33 ` Carson Chittom
2012-04-26 15:38 ` Tassilo Horn
2012-04-26 16:06 ` Carson Chittom
2012-04-26 16:28 ` Rasmus
2012-04-26 17:23 ` Tassilo Horn
2012-04-28 8:25 ` Eric Fraga
2012-04-28 12:28 ` Rasmus
2012-04-28 14:59 ` Eric Fraga
2012-04-28 23:49 ` Myles English
2012-04-29 1:00 ` Neil Smithline
2012-04-26 20:03 ` Florian Friesdorf
2012-04-26 21:26 ` Myles English
2012-04-27 13:34 ` Eric Schulte
2012-04-27 20:08 ` Myles English [this message]
2012-04-27 18:16 ` Eric Schulte
2012-04-28 8:29 ` Eric Fraga
2012-04-28 15:51 ` RC
2012-04-28 16:54 ` Richard Riley
2012-04-28 11:46 ` Rasmus
2012-04-28 22:45 ` [OT] " Eric Schulte
2012-04-26 22:22 ` Charles Philip Chan
2012-04-27 4:29 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2012-04-27 12:09 ` Stephen Eglen
2012-04-28 8:35 ` Eric Fraga
2012-04-28 17:44 ` Dirk-Jan C. Binnema
2012-04-29 0:45 ` Neil Smithline
2012-04-29 9:00 ` Stephen Eglen
2012-04-29 9:41 ` Bastien
2012-04-29 18:41 ` Mikkel Kristiansen
2012-04-30 10:28 ` Richard Riley
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