Re: Configuration example for mbsync + dovecot + Gnus

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Garjola Dindi <garjola@garjola.net> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I would like to move from a nnmaildir + OfflineIMAP configuration to
> something which:
>
> 1. scales better for large number of messages than nnmaildir and
> 2. does not use OfflineIMAP (Python 2 based and sometimes slow).
>
> I understand that some Gnus users use a local IMAP server with dovecot
> and the nnimap backend.
>
> I found these interesting instructions here:
>
> https://ericabrahamsen.net/tech/2014/oct/gnus-dovecot-lucene.html

I'm still using this setup! You didn't say what was going wrong, but
here's a sample config block for one of my IMAP accounts:

IMAPAccount ea
Host mail.ericabrahamsen.net
User eric@ericabrahamsen.net
PassCmd "/usr/bin/pass email/ea"
SSLType STARTTLS
Port 143

IMAPStore ea-ro
Account ea

IMAPAccount local-ea-dovecot
SSLType None
Host localhost
User eric-local@ericabrahamsen.net
Pass <boguspassword>
AuthMechs LOGIN

IMAPStore ea-daemon-local
Account local-ea-dovecot

Channel ea
Master :ea-ro:
Slave :ea-daemon-local:
Patterns *
Create Both
Expunge Both
Remove Both