Benjamin Slade <sl...@jnanam.net> writes: >> I wrote this last year, and it's more focused on searching, but the >> basic setup should be plenty viable for you. See if this helps! >> >> https://ericabrahamsen.net/tech/2014/oct/gnus-dovecot-lucene.html > > Thanks for this. It looks very close to what I need to set up. Multiple > accounts etc. I was originally thinking to try to piggyback the Gnus > setup on the offlineimap setup I already have for mu4e (so that I could > continue to use both), but looking at the details of the setup, it seems > like it would be better to do a separate setup with mbsync and a > separate maildir for gnus.
I don't know exactly what you're doing, but if the mails are all coming down to a single dovecot installation, it really shouldn't matter how you're feeding dovecot (offlineimap vs mbsync), or reading from it (gnus vs mu4e). Dovecot does a nice job of funneling everything into the same setup. > Does this setup synchronise well across machines? I have 3 different > machines that need to synchronise. For the older offlineimap setup of > http://roland.entierement.nu/blog/2010/09/08/gnus-dovecot-offlineimap-search-a-howto.html > , I note that he customises offlineimap.py to synchronise some Gnus > flags (expire). Can something equivalent be done with mbsync, or this is > no longer necessary? I can't tell you about custom flags, that's something I've never tried to do. Hopefully someone else might jump in with information that... I keep mail sync'ed between two different machines, and it works great. It worked okay when I was using Gmail as a backend, and since I switched my mail setup to self-hosted (also with Dovecot on the server), it works even better. It's been perfect synchronization, so far, though as I say I haven't tried custom flags. > Is the Lucien search solution working out well for you? One thing I do > really like about mu4e is the speed and flexibility of search. Lucene search works great. What's awkward is the IMAP search syntax, and particularly Gnus' interaction with it: the nnir search interface to IMAP seems unnecessarily clunky. I have extremely iffy results when doing date-based searches, but I don't know if I should blame dovecot/lucene, or gnus/nnir. So I guess yes on the speed, maybe not so much on the flexibility. HTH, Eric _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
