Eric Schulte <[email protected]> writes:
> Myles English <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> Matt,
>>
>>>> On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:47:40 -0400, Matt Price said:
>> > So, I'm wondering what solutions other org users have settled
>> > on.
>>
>> I use gnus, offline imap, dovecot, notmuch, msmtp, bbdb3. And
>> org-mode
>> capture including links to emails works fine.
>>
>> The end result is very good and stable through updates (I am using
>> Arch
>> Linux too) but I have to say though it did take a LOT of
>> configurating.
>>
>
> As a long-time user of gnus with imap my only complaints are the
> inability to work offline and the relatively poor sorting rules of my
> web-mail imap servers. It sounds like dovecot and offline-imap could
> solve both of these problems.
>
> Was the offline-imap/dovecot combo difficult to configure?
No.
> Are there perhaps online instructions to which you could direct me?
> FWIW I also use Arch as my OS.
bash> sudo pacman -S dovecot
in your mail config:
#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(setq my/imap-method
`(nnimap "mail"
(nnimap-stream shell)
(nnimap-shell-program "MAIL=maildir:$HOME/mail
/usr/lib/dovecot/imap")))
(setq gnus-select-method '(nnml ""))
(add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods my/imap-method)
#+end_src
this is setup is robust to no internet connection.
Correct $HOME/mail to the proper mail dir.
–Rasmus
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