[arch-general] offlineimap

[Victor Silva]

Maybe you could try mailsync http://mailsync.sourceforge.net/

Regards,
Victor
2011/12/12 Ralf Madorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net>

> 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
>
>