Re: From Gnus to mu4e

[Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de>]

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Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizolles@free.fr> writes:

> 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.
>
> Because otherwise, you would have Gnus and offlineimap competing for
> access ?

I have not actually experienced this, but I was afraid tat, especially
simultaneous write access to the mailbox files cal lead to corruption or
errors due to simultaneous access. 

>
>> 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
>> `----
>>
>> and offlineimap only reads the emails from the maildir.
>
> That looks interesting, I'll try it.
>
>> And I have found the following two functions to open the same message
>> which is open in gnus in notmuch and the other way around:
>>
>> ** In notmuch jump to gnus folder
>
> I think you forgot the other way around :-)

Sorry - here is it:

,----
| ** In gnus jump to notmuch
| Thanks to [[notmuch:id:87fvn4j45h.fsf@thinkpad-t61.fritz.box][Email from Tassilo Horn: Re: How to get message-id from]]
| #+begin_src emacs-lisp
| (defun rmk/gnus-goto-message-in-notmuch ()
|   (interactive)
|   (unless (buffer-live-p gnus-summary-buffer)
|     (user-error "No open Gnus summary buffer!"))
|   (let ((message-id (substring (with-current-buffer gnus-summary-buffer
|                                  (mail-header-id (gnus-summary-article-header))) 1 -1)))
|     (message message-id)
|     (notmuch-tree (concatenate 'string "id:" message-id)) ;; Now do the notmuch stuff
|     ))
| #+end_src
`----

>
>> Hope this helps,
>
> I'm sure it will, thanks a lot.

Great.

Cheers,

Rainer

>
> Julien.
>
>

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Rainer M. Krug
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