Re: mail integration, advice?

[Eric Schulte <eric.schulte@gmx.com>]

Myles English <mylesenglish@gmail.com> writes:

> 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 I remember this was quite useful if a bit outdated, it is a bit skimpy on Dovecot though: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.
>

Wonderful, thanks for the instructions, with any luck I'll be reading
and writing email from the train by this time next week.

>
> 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?
>

No need, if I don't figure out at least some of the config myself I'll
not be able to maintain it later.

Thanks!

>
> Good luck.
>
> Myles

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Eric Schulte
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