emacs-orgmode@gnu.org archives
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
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I remember this was quite useful if a bit outdated, it is a bit skimpy on Dovecot though: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

  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

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

  List information: https://www.orgmode.org/

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=8762claqf9.fsf@gmail.com \
    --to=mylesenglish@gmail.com \
    --cc=emacs-orgmode@gnu.org \
    --cc=eric.schulte@gmx.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).