From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrea Crotti Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: More emacs instances Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:20:08 +0200 Message-ID: References: <8762ze8w6k.fsf@mean.albasani.net> <87wrrutus5.fsf@mean.albasani.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1282087253 8742 80.91.229.12 (17 Aug 2010 23:20:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 23:20:53 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 18 01:20:51 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OlVSb-0005XN-C0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:20:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54563 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OlVSa-0002nw-No for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:20:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=42167 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OlVSA-0002ng-BS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:20:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OlVS9-0006I0-6U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:20:22 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:34290) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OlVS8-0006Hn-T9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:20:21 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OlVS5-0005Pr-V1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:20:17 +0200 Original-Received: from p508a22b4.dip.t-dialin.net ([80.138.34.180]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:20:17 +0200 Original-Received: from andrea.crotti.0 by p508a22b4.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:20:17 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 47 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p508a22b4.dip.t-dialin.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:R/ZRyCmhH+xBWEFwI+iy8tSt1/4= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:74715 Archived-At: Richard Riley writes: > > I dont see how that is the power. You can clone multiple accounts with > offlineimap. Sure but I would finally like to concentrate all my mails in one and organize things for subject, not origin. > No you dont. The other clients offlineimap too from the original imap > sources. You dont just clone or copy the maildir. > > I see with pop3 there might be an issue. But most providers do IMAP. > What I think I will do, already tried and it works is something like this - fetchmail fetches mails from my pop3 accounts - pass them to procmail which has some rules that, for each possible account, write the mail in the correct imap folder It works perfectly apparently, the only problem is that those mails I get then when I use offlineimap again are not propagated to gmail. > > Let say you have 3 email accounts out there on the intertubes. Configure > offlineimap to sync with a local maildir for each account and copy that > config (.offlineimaprc) to each client. Each client does its OWN > offlineimap. Well, thats how my setup works and it seems fine. > > Here is my .offlineimaprc to give you an idea Yes thanks a lot I got that, but I'm not sure is what I want as written above. > > You want to leave it on their servers : its a failsafe then. Maybe, but does it make sense that mails with personal and sensible data are stored on a server which gives the service for free? Another possibility is to keep a folder with more sensible stuff and make those mails be removed automatically, don't know how yet... It's not being paranoid trying to be cautious in my opinion. > > It would work but it attaches your gmail id you used to authenticate to > the smtp server in the "from". Or it used to. > Ah ok never noticed..