Re: nnir-notmuch-engine setup with gnus/offlineimap/dovecot

[Dave Abrahams]

on Fri Sep 30 2016, myglc2 <myglc2-AT-gmail.com> wrote:

> Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de> writes:
>
>> myglc2 <myglc2@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> was also important to build from the git repo because, at least a month
>>> or two ago, the tar.gz at version 1.2.1 was missing a feature that turns
>>> out to be important in my gmail sync setup.
>>
>> Which feature was this, if I may ask? I would also use isync for
>> syncing a gmail account.
>
> One of these sync options ...
>
> Create Both
> Expunge Both
> SyncState *
>
> ... sorry I don't recall which.
>
>> Could you share your config so that I can have
>> an idea what I am looking at in a change ti isync?
>
> Here is the top of my ~/.mbsyncrc. It includes Gmail config notes and
> the config of one "channel" that syncs one Gmail account into ~/Maildir
>
> # usage:
> #   mbsync --all --verbose
> # ... or for a single channel ...
> #   mbsync --verbose --debug cm
> #
> # With Gmail configured this way ...
> #
> # > Settings > Labels
> #
> #     > System labels
> #         Inbox      X Show in Imap
> #         Starred      Show in Imap
> #         Important    Show in Imap
> #         Chats        Show in Imap
> #         Sent Mail  X Show in Imap
> #         Drafts       Show in Imap
> #         All Mail   X Show in Imap
> #         Spam         Show in Imap
> #         Trash        Show in Imap
> #
> #     > Labels
> #         <remove all labels>
> #
> # > Settings > Forwarding and POP/IMAP
> #
> #     > When I mark a message in IMAP as deleted:
> #       X  Auto-Expung off
> #
> #     > When a message is marked as deleted and expunged...
> #       X  Immediately delete the message forever
> #
> # ... the 'cm' config below produces a Mairdir store like ...
> #
> # /home/glc/Maildir/cm:
> # drwx------ 6 glc glc 4096 Dec 12 20:14 [Gmail]
> # drwx------ 5 glc glc 4096 Dec 12 20:13 INBOX
> #
> # /home/glc/Maildir/cm/[Gmail]:
> # drwx------ 5 glc glc 4096 Dec 12 20:14 All Mail
> # drwx------ 5 glc glc 4096 Dec 12 20:14 Sent Mail
> # drwx------ 5 glc glc 4096 Dec 12 20:14 Trash
> #
> # Any "new" Gmail message initially appears in two ~/Maildir folders,
> # either in 'cm/INBOX' + 'cm/[Gmail]/All Mail', or 'cm/[Gmail]/Sent
> # Mail' + 'cm/[Gmail]/All Mail'. When you delete a message from both
> # of the ~/Maildir folders it will be deleted from Gmail.
>
> ###### cm START 
>
> IMAPAccount cm
> Host imap.gmail.com
> User USER@gmail.com
> Pass PASSWORD
> AuthMechs LOGIN
> SSLType IMAPS
> CertificateFile /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
>
> IMAPStore cm-remote
> Account cm
>
> MaildirStore cm-local
> Path ~/Maildir/cm/
> Inbox ~/Maildir/cm/INBOX
> SubFolders Verbatim
>
> Channel cm
> Master :cm-remote:
> Slave :cm-local:
> Patterns "*"
> Create Both
> Expunge Both
> SyncState *
>
> ###### cm END
>
>> How do these two compare in regards to stability (offlineimap has
>> e.g. an issue wit suspend on the Mac)?
>
> Don't know, I use it on a server.

I don't have any issues suspending my macs with isync running.

-- 
-Dave