on Thu Sep 29 2016, Rainer M Krug <Rainer-AT-krugs.de> wrote: > Dave Abrahams <[email protected]> writes: > >> on Fri Sep 23 2016, Rainer M Krug <Rainer-AT-krugs.de> wrote: >> >>> Dmitry Alexandrov <[email protected]> writes: >>> >>>>> Most discussions on this topic point to >>>>> http://roland.entierement.nu/blog/2010/09/08/gnus-dovecot-offlineimap-search-a-howto.html >>>>> >>>>> The name implies that this may be exactly what I want, but the >>>>> link appears to be dead now. I get an empty page when I try to >>>>> view it. >>> >>> I am using exactly the same setup, except that I am using >>> >>> ,---- >>> | (nnimap-shell-program "/usr/local/opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap -o >>> mail_location=maildir:$HOME/Maildir"))) >>> `---- >>> >>> to access my local mail and I don't have a dovecot daemon running >>> permanently. >> >> Yes. Other things that work really well in a setup like that are: >> >> 1. Using dovecot's mdbox storage format, which is much more efficient > > There is, among others, one reason why I don't use mbox format: > backup. If I add an email to a folder, the whole mbox file will be > backed up - in the case of maildir, only the new mail file. This saves > backup space, especially as I am using a Mac and Time Machine which is > doing hourly backups.
Not mbox; mdbox. I've used this setup on a mac with network TM for a long time. >> 2. Building dovecot with clucene and stemmer support for search > > Does this really work with nnimap-shell-program? I thought one has to > use the dovecot daemon for this? Yes, it works. Feel free to scrape http://github.com/onmsg/onmsg for details and ask me questions for more. There's a script in there that I use to install (most of) this setup with homebrew. >> >> 3. Using mbsync from the isync project (scales much better than >> offlineimap IMO, though I am about to try dropping it because doveadm >> sync is already part of dovecot) > > offlineimap works for me - and never change a running system (well - > that's the theory). I don't suppose you're syncing any really large folders then? Among other things I found doing it all through Python was causing way much CPU usage on my Macbook pro. > Interesting - didn't know about doveadm sync - any experiences with > it? Not yet. > How does it compare to isync and offlineimap? I'm not really in a position to comment yet; I've just skimmed the output of doveadm help sync. >> >>>> >>>> The Internet Archive Wayback Machine comes to your aid :-) >>>> >>>> http://wayback.archive.org/web/20160305042051/http://roland.entierement.nu/blog/2010/09/08/gnus-dovecot-offlineimap-search-a-howto.html >>>> >>>> (I have no idea whether this page is in fact helpful though.) >>> >>> This link is helpful, but it did not actually help with getting the >>> search to work. There was another discy=ussion abl=out using lucene in >>> dovecot for the search, but as you, I would prefer notmuch search. >>> >>> I have simply defined a shortcut for me to do the search - much >>> easier. You could even rebiung GG ? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Rainer >>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> info-gnus-english mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english -- -Dave _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
