From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Sullivan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs mail client + offlineimap? Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 20:29:37 -0400 Message-ID: <87zme8gnwu.fsf@ashbery.wjsullivan.net> References: <877j1uuziw.fsf@geekbox.foldfarm.foo> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1156101896 482 80.91.229.2 (20 Aug 2006 19:24:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 19:24:56 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 20 21:24:53 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GEsug-0000qI-CP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 21:24:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GEsuf-00070w-Nt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 15:24:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GErqZ-0000Hh-AC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 14:16:31 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GErqV-0000FV-D5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 14:16:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GErqU-0000FN-VP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 14:16:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.41.67] (helo=mx20.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GErwt-0000Be-H3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 14:23:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GErpN-0002Ri-GA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 14:15:17 -0400 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GErp8-0004Sk-FY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 20:15:02 +0200 Original-Received: from dsl092-079-150.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.92.79.150]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 20:15:02 +0200 Original-Received: from john by dsl092-079-150.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 20:15:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl092-079-150.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:QpQ99aBhXwx7FHO205wzlOXmzC4= X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:36786 Archived-At: Joseph Le-Phan writes: > I've been trying (fruitlessly) to get offlineimap maildir's to be > accessible by gnus. I've since given up on the idea, and, while gnus is > a fantastic news reader, I can't seem to make it also my preferred email > reader, so I'm considering using a separate mail reader. > > Short of locally serving my offlineimap repo as an imap server itself > (with courier-imap or other), can I use an emacs-based email reader to > access my offlinimap maildir's instead? Can anybody recommend such a > reader? I guess I do what you don't want to do, which is run a local IMAP server (courier), which I then access via nnimap in gnus. Using offlineimap, I sync the local maildirs with those on the mail server that actually receives the incoming mail. My understanding is that nnmaildir won't work with offlineimap maildirs because nnmaildir doesn't use the standard maildir flags. I think there is a script floating around on the internets somewhere that will turn the nnmaildir metadata into flags that can be understood by other maildir programs. -- -John Sullivan -http://www.wjsullivan.net -GPG Key: AE8600B6