From: Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de>
To: Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizolles@free.fr>
Subject: Re: From Gnus to mu4e
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 10:39:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2k2sfolh8.fsf@krugs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wpwg3b66.fsf@gnu.org> (Bastien's message of "Thu, 27 Aug 2015 19:15:29 +0200")
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Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> writes:
> Hi Rainer,
>
> 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.
>>
>> 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
>> `----
>
> Interesting -- can you detail this parts of your configuration?
This is how I define my secondary select method in GNUS, which is my
local, with offlineimap synched, mail:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
;; (nnimap-stream network)
;; (nnimap-server-port 143)
;; (nnimap-address "localhost")))
(nnimap-stream shell)
(nnimap-shell-program "/usr/local/opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap -o mail_location=maildir:$HOME/Maildir")))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
To ose the daemon, you have to toggle the comments (I hope - haven't
done it in a long time...).
In offlineimap, I have the following for my local mail location:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
[Repository LocalRMKrugGMAIL]
type = IMAP
preauthtunnel = /usr/local/opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap -o mail_location=maildir:$HOME/Maildir
holdconnectionopen = yes
maxconnections = 3
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
So offlineimap uses the binary (.../imap) to connect to my maildir.
>
> I am not using dovecot locally so far, just nnmaildir from Gnus.
>
> But I've encountered some annoying race conditions, while sync'ing
> through mbsync *and* reading/replying from Gnus, so I'm interested
> in knowing how to avoid them -- ideally letting mbsync to run in
> the background.
Interesting.
I have seen that mbsync can also sync to a *running* imap server, but I
do not if you can use something like I use in gnus and offlineimap.
Thinking about the race conditions more, I do not know if my approach
actually avoids them, as there are two different processes of imap
running (one offlineimap, one gnus) accessing the same mail.
I can only say this worked perfectly for me so far.
If you really want to be sure, run everything through a local docecot imap
server.
Cheers,
Rainer
>
> Thanks!
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Rainer M. Krug
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-28 8:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-20 21:23 From Gnus to mu4e Julien Cubizolles
2015-08-21 10:28 ` Julien Cubizolles
2015-08-21 10:49 ` Colin Yates
2015-08-21 13:06 ` Suvayu Ali
2015-08-26 6:53 ` Julien Cubizolles
2015-08-25 5:49 ` Bastien
2015-08-25 6:28 ` Ian Zimmerman
2015-08-25 6:56 ` Bastien Guerry
2015-08-26 7:22 ` Julien Cubizolles
2015-08-27 12:50 ` Rainer M Krug
2015-08-27 17:15 ` Bastien
2015-08-28 8:39 ` Rainer M Krug [this message]
2015-08-28 8:44 ` Bastien
2015-08-28 8:51 ` Rainer M Krug
2015-08-28 8:58 ` Rasmus
2015-08-28 9:15 ` Julien Cubizolles
2015-08-28 10:03 ` Rainer M Krug
2015-08-28 10:08 ` Rasmus
2015-08-28 10:41 ` Rainer M Krug
2015-08-28 10:04 ` Rasmus
2015-08-28 8:51 ` Bastien
2015-08-27 21:27 ` Julien Cubizolles
2015-08-27 23:34 ` Suvayu Ali
2015-08-27 23:50 ` Ian Zimmerman
2015-08-28 0:14 ` Suvayu Ali
2015-08-28 0:24 ` Ian Zimmerman
2015-08-28 8:25 ` Rainer M Krug
2015-08-28 9:06 ` Suvayu Ali
2015-08-28 15:31 ` Ian Zimmerman
2015-08-31 0:16 ` Suvayu Ali
2015-08-28 8:21 ` Rainer M Krug
2015-08-27 12:58 ` Suvayu Ali
2015-08-27 15:52 ` Glenn Morris
2015-08-27 17:32 ` Suvayu Ali
2015-08-27 17:11 ` Bastien
2015-08-27 17:08 ` Bastien
2015-08-27 17:30 ` Suvayu Ali
2015-08-27 21:52 ` Julien Cubizolles
2015-08-27 22:18 ` Bastien
2015-08-27 23:30 ` Julien Cubizolles
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2015-08-24 11:19 ` Joost Kremers
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