Re: From Gnus to mu4e

[Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizolles@free.fr>]

Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de> writes:


> There is one program accessing the mail folder: dovecot - no conflicts, race
> conditions, no slightly different formats, standards, ... And you can
> also remotely access dovecot if you want to.

Because otherwise, you would have Gnus and offlineimap competing for
access ?

> By the way: the dovecot daemon is not permanently running, as I am using
> the shell access from gnus:
>
> ,----
> | (nnimap-shell-program "/usr/local/opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap -o mail_location=maildir:$HOME/Maildir")))
> `----
>
> The same from offlineimap:
>
> ,----
> | preauthtunnel = /usr/local/opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap -o mail_location=maildir:$HOME/Maildir
> `----
>
> and offlineimap only reads the emails from the maildir.

That looks interesting, I'll try it.

> And I have found the following two functions to open the same message
> which is open in gnus in notmuch and the other way around:
>
> ** In notmuch jump to gnus folder

I think you forgot the other way around :-)

> Hope this helps,

I'm sure it will, thanks a lot.

Julien.