From: Eric Schulte <eric.schulte@gmx.com>
To: Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [OT] mail integration, advice?
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 18:45:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r4v7fpbw.fsf_-_@gmx.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87aa1wqdtg.fsf@pank.eu> (rasmus@gmx.us's message of "Sat, 28 Apr 2012 12:46:19 +0100")
Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> writes:
> Eric Schulte <eric.schulte@gmx.com> writes:
>
>> Myles English <mylesenglish@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Matt,
>>>
>>>>> On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:47:40 -0400, Matt Price said:
>>> > So, I'm wondering what solutions other org users have settled
>>> > on.
>>>
>>> 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 (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?
>
> No.
>
Thanks to you and Myles for your respective advice on this setup. I'm
now using offlineimap+dovecot to read almost [1] all of my email. I'll
share my config in case anyone else is interested in trying out this
combination of tools.
I'm using the following very basic dovecot config [2], with the
following offlineimap config [3], and gnus config [4]. This was all
very easy to setup.
Now my email system should be complete. At least until I decide I need
to switch from using free webmail servers to running my own remote IMAP
server.
Thanks,
Footnotes:
[1] Due to a weird issue on my school's imap server I must issue the
LIST command as 'LIST "mail" "*"' instead of 'LIST "" "*"'. I
haven't yet figured out how to port this workaround to offlineimap.
[2] $ dovecot -n
# 2.1.5: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 3.3.3-1-ARCH x86_64 ext4
mail_location = maildir:/home/eschulte/mail
namespace inbox {
inbox = yes
location =
mailbox Drafts {
special_use = \Drafts
}
mailbox Junk {
special_use = \Junk
}
mailbox Sent {
special_use = \Sent
}
mailbox "Sent Messages" {
special_use = \Sent
}
mailbox Trash {
special_use = \Trash
}
prefix =
}
passdb {
args = /etc/dovecot/passwd
driver = passwd-file
}
ssl = no
[3] $ cat .offlineimaprc
[general]
accounts = gmx
maxsyncaccounts = 1
[Account gmx]
localrepository = gmx-local
remoterepository = gmx-remote
[Repository gmx-local]
type = IMAP
remotehost = localhost
remoteport = 143
remoteuser = eschulte
preauthtunnel = MAIL=maildir:$HOME/mail/me /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
holdconnectionopen = yes
[Repository gmx-remote]
type = IMAP
remotehost = imap.gmx.com
remoteuser = my-email-address
remotepass = my-password
remoteport = 993
ssl = yes
[4]
#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(setq
gnus-select-method
'(nnimap "gmx"
(nnimap-stream shell)
(nnimap-shell-program
"MAIL=maildir:$HOME/mail/me /usr/lib/dovecot/imap")))
#+end_src
--
Eric Schulte
http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-29 0:45 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
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 ` Eric Schulte [this message]
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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