Garjola Dindi <[email protected]> writes: > On Mon 25-Jan-2021 at 17:31:14 +01, Eric Abrahamsen > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Garjola Dindi <[email protected]> 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: > > Thanks for your answer! > > With respect to the 2014 post, for the mbsync part, I had to change > > ,---- > | UseIMAPS no > | UseTLSV1 no > `---- > > to this > > ,---- > | SSLType IMAPS > | SSLVersions TLSv1.2 > `---- > > and also add the port as you have in the example you just gave. > > And now I also see that for the local dovecot, you have > > ,---- > | AuthMechs LOGIN > `---- > > which was not the case in the blog post. This may be why I was getting > an authentication failure.
Looks like it's time to update the blog post... > I will try again with this updated configuration (my next scheduled > session to play with this is next week-end!). > > Do you remember having also updated dovecot.conf or other things? I tried to keep dovecot as bog-standard as possible. The only changes I made to dovecot.conf were to set the location of the password file and where to store mail, and most importantly to turn on full-text search. Then there was the passwd file itself. I think that was it! Eric _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
