Re: Trouble setting up Gnus + OfflineIMAP + dovecot

[Lluís Vilanova]

Julien Cubizolles writes:

> Thanks you for your answer Lluís.
>> I use a configuration file for dovecot:
>> 
>> (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
>> '((nnimap "FreeOffline"
>> (nnimap-stream shell)
>> (nnimap-shell-program "/usr/lib/dovecot/imap -c ~/.dovecot-free")))
>> 
>> With the following contents:
>> 
>> protocols = imap
>> log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S "
>> mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir/free
>> protocol imap {
>> mail_plugins = fts fts_lucene
>> }
>> plugin {
>> fts = lucene
>> fts_lucene = whitespace_chars=@
>> fts_autoindex = yes
>> }

> I tried it, it didn't help.

>> I vaguely remember having to switch from "-o" to "-c" for some reason I 
>> cannot
>> recall. If that does not work, I'd say the problem might be in your 
>> offlineimap
>> configuration. Did you check the contents of your "Maildir-free" directory?

> Here it is:

> /home/wilk/Maildir-free
> ├── cur
> ├── dovecot.index.log
> ├── dovecot.mailbox.log
> ├── dovecot-uidlist
> ├── dovecot-uidvalidity
> ├── dovecot-uidvalidity.5629f967
> ├── General
> │   ├── cur
> │   │   ├── 
> 1445591380_0.15542.lago,U=152457,FMD5=0db377921f4ce762c62526131097968f:2,
> │   │   ├── 
> 1445591381_0.15542.lago,U=152458,FMD5=0db377921f4ce762c62526131097968f:2,
> │   │   ├── 
> 1445591381_1.15542.lago,U=152459,FMD5=0db377921f4ce762c62526131097968f:2,
> │   │   ├── 
> 1445591381_2.15542.lago,U=137612,FMD5=0db377921f4ce762c62526131097968f:2,FS
> │   │   ├── 
> 1445591382_0.15542.lago,U=142222,FMD5=0db377921f4ce762c62526131097968f:2,S
> many lines like this
> │   │   ├── 
> 1445607543_0.15542.lago,U=152499,FMD5=0db377921f4ce762c62526131097968f:2,R
> │   │   ├── 
> 1445607543_1.15542.lago,U=152500,FMD5=0db377921f4ce762c62526131097968f:2,
> │   │   └── 
> 1445607543_2.15542.lago,U=152502,FMD5=0db377921f4ce762c62526131097968f:2,
> │   ├── new
> │   └── tmp
> ├── maildirfolder
> ├── new
> ├── subscriptions
> └── tmp

Hmmmm, your contents seem strange to me. General should not be there, since you
said you're only synchronizing INBOX. But since you said it's a gmail account,
maybe you need to synchronize it somewhat differently:

  http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnusGmail#toc9


Cheers,
  Lluis

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