[arch-general] offlineimap

[Ralf Madorf]

Hi :)

I suspect that offlineimap isn't what I need for the wanted task:

- to download emails from my providers server
- to delete them from the server when the download is finished
- to keep them on my computer, to get access to the emails from
  different Linux installs

So I won't sync between my provider's server and my computer, but I'll
sync between several mailers on my computer.

I like to test offlineimap anyway.

There are two issues:

- the wanted language for my computer should be English, but the maildir
  directories always are generated in German.
  I never set anything, but the keyboard and the timezone to German, but
  first there wasn't a /etc/locale.conf, later I added this
  configuration file, but nothing changed [1]

- neither Evolution, nor Kmail are able to use the generated maildir,
  resp. Evolution doesn't show the tons of mails of the INBOX, but
  instead the few mails of a folder called Entw&APw-rfe [2]
  FWIW I also installed Mutt, but I'll use a MUA with a GUI.

[1]
################
### 1. SETUP ###
################

/etc/rc.conf
LOCALE="en_US.UTF-8"
DAEMON_LOCALE="no"
HARDWARECLOCK="localtime"
TIMEZONE="Europe/Berlin"
KEYMAP="de-latin1"

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/keyboard.conf
Option "XkbLayout" "de"

/etc/locale.conf
No such file or directory

################
### 2. SETUP ###
################

/etc/locale.conf
LOCALE="en_US.UTF-8

I deleted .offlineimap and Maildir and set up a new Evolution accounds.

[2]
#####################
### offlineimaprc ###
#####################

##################################################
# General definitions
##################################################

[general]

metadata = ~/.offlineimap
accounts = Spinymouse
maxsyncaccounts = 1
ui = Blinkenlights

fsync = true

##################################################
# Mailbox name recorder
##################################################

[mbnames]

### First I tried with this and different settings for sep
#enabled = no
#filename = ~/Mutt/muttrc.mailboxes
#header = "mailboxes "
#peritem = "+%(accountname)s/%(foldername)s"
#sep =############
#footer = "\n"

##################################################
# Accounts
##################################################

[Account Spinymouse]

localrepository = Spinymouse-local
remoterepository = Spinymouse-remote

[Repository Spinymouse-local]

type = Maildir
localfolders = ~/Maildir
sep = /
restoreatime = no

[Repository Spinymouse-remote]

type = IMAP
remotehost = imap.alice-dsl.net
ssl = yes
remoteuser = ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net
maxconnections = 2
holdconnectionopen = no
subscribedonly = no
readonly = False

Regards,

Ralf