Luis Henriques writes: > Hi! > > Just like a lot of other people in this list is doing, I've been a happy > Gnus user with a local dovecot installation. For several years I've been > using something like: > > (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods > '((nnimap "myemail" > (nnimap-stream shell) > (nnimap-shell-program > "/usr/libexec/dovecot/imap -o > mail_location=maildir:~/mail/:LAYOUT=fs:INBOX=~/mail/inbox")))) > > (In fact, I've had a few more nnimap entries, but that's not relevant.) > > Unfortunately, the imap interface has changed quite a bit with recent > dovecot versions (2.4.1 here), and this doesn't work anymore. After > spending quite some time trying to get a similar setup, I had to give up > and started using the real (non-local) imap servers. > > As anyone found a solution? Or the solution is to bite the bullet and > configure and run the full dovecot server locally? I'd prefer to keep > running the imap binary only using my user (with nnimap-shell-program), > mainly because: > > 1) I have more than one email account, and this would keep them neatly > separated and > 2) it's *much* simpler to configure.
mbsync etc. are indeed hard to set up, but you can use (info "(gnus) Agent Basics") simply using 'J a' on the nnimap server. WDYK, you might even like it better. :-) --
