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From: Gareth Smith <gareth@totherme.org>
To: Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Nice blog post - Org-mode in Your Pocket Is a GNU-Shaped Devil
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2013 22:28:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87li8w7jmd.fsf@totherme.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130404174117.GB11897@kuru.dyndns-at-home.com> (Suvayu Ali's message of "Thu, 4 Apr 2013 19:41:17 +0200")

Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> writes:
> 2. Oh that's easy to solve, use maildirs (sync with OfflineIMAP).  That
>    does not work well because Gnus uses its own flags (an example where
>    Gnus actually breaks standards)!  There are some hacks around that
>    out in the wild, so let's let it slide.
> 3. Gnus stores some meta information/cache for maildirs in a .nnmaildir
>    folder *inside* the maildir directory tree!
>      maildir
>      ├── .nnmaildir
>      ├── cur
>      ├── new
>      └── tmp
>    I do not know how, but this supposed meta information or cache takes
>    about 2/3 of disk space as the original maildir!  Obviously that is a
>    problem for large mailboxes.

FWIW, I use offlineimap this way, but rather than pointing gnus directly
at my local maildir, I use dovecot (a small local IMAP server) as an
intermediary. This method is documented here:

http://roland.entierement.nu/blog/2010/09/08/gnus-dovecot-offlineimap-search-a-howto.html

Note the update at the end, since dovecot's command-line interface has
changed since the article was first written. I actually use:

(setq gnus-select-method '(nnimap "Mail"
                                  (nnimap-shell-program
                                   "/usr/lib/dovecot/imap -c ~/.dovecotrc")
                                  (nnimap-stream shell)))

So far, my emacs (which contains everything I do except Firefox) has
remained responsive, and my mailstore still makes sense to K9 when I'm
mobile.

G                                  

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-04-05 21:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-04  9:28 Nice blog post - Org-mode in Your Pocket Is a GNU-Shaped Devil Rainer M. Krug
2013-04-04  9:55 ` Russell Adams
2013-04-04  9:59 ` Christian Moe
2013-04-04 10:57   ` Rainer M. Krug
2013-04-04 11:48     ` François Pinard
2013-04-04 12:12       ` Bastien
2013-04-04 16:39         ` Haider Rizvi
2013-04-05 23:10           ` Bastien
2013-04-05 10:59         ` François Pinard
2013-04-04 12:41       ` Rainer M. Krug
2013-04-04 17:41       ` Suvayu Ali
2013-04-05 11:18         ` François Pinard
2013-04-05 12:37           ` Suvayu Ali
2013-04-05 21:28         ` Gareth Smith [this message]
2013-04-05 22:25           ` Eric Schulte

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