From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Gnus and offline Email Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 11:07:11 -0800 Message-ID: <87zil1zxr4.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <58273138.4070808@openmailbox.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1479160754 20635 195.159.176.226 (14 Nov 2016 21:59:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 21:59:14 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.130014 (Ma Gnus v0.14) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 14 22:59:09 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1c6PHL-0004Il-HH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Nov 2016 22:59:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42906 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c6PHO-00042p-SC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Nov 2016 16:59:06 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39602) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c6McN-0001Bu-B9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Nov 2016 14:08:36 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c6McJ-0003K5-5r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Nov 2016 14:08:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=59613 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c6McI-0003Jd-W3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Nov 2016 14:08:31 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1c6MbW-0004re-Ql for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Nov 2016 20:07:42 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 37 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:BFrqPKMKTxmGK69gOyjNoZKyGTk= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 16:58:10 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:111730 Archived-At: Filipp Gunbin writes: > Hi, > > On 12/11/2016 16:11 +0100, Tim Zander wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> how do I set-up Gnus (and my GNU/Linux operating) to read and send my >> emails? Preferably with IMAP but it should also work offline. Everything >> I found online was very old, but if you know that some guide still works >> today I could give it a try. >> >> My email provider is openmailbox.org and I am using GNU Emacs 26.0.50.2 >> on Trisquel 7.0 (if this makes any difference). >> >> Many Thanks, >> >> Tim > > A less popular, but working way is to download mail via IMAP as you > would do via POP. Like that: > > (setq mail-sources '((imap :server "yourserver.com" > :user "you@yourserver.com" > :stream tls))) > > (setq gnus-select-method '(nnnil "")) > > (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods > '((nnfolder "mailserver" > (nnfolder-directory "~/mailfolder")))) Interesting. So, for my own information, this basically creates a one-way sync with your mail server? What happens if, say, you delete a message locally, then sync again? Will it replace the message, or is it a "blind" one-way sync?