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

[Dave Abrahams]

on Fri Sep 23 2016, Rainer M Krug <Rainer-AT-krugs.de> wrote:

> Dmitry Alexandrov <321942@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> Most discussions on this topic point to
>>> http://roland.entierement.nu/blog/2010/09/08/gnus-dovecot-offlineimap-search-a-howto.html
>>>
>>> The name implies that this may be exactly what I want, but the
>>> link appears to be dead now.  I get an empty page when I try to
>>> view it.
>
> I am using exactly the same setup, except that I am using
>
> ,----
> | (nnimap-shell-program "/usr/local/opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap -o 
> mail_location=maildir:$HOME/Maildir")))
> `----
>
> to access my local mail and I don't have a dovecot daemon running
> permanently.

Yes.  Other things that work really well in a setup like that are:

1. Using dovecot's mdbox storage format, which is much more efficient

2. Building dovecot with clucene and stemmer support for search

3. Using mbsync from the isync project (scales much better than
   offlineimap IMO, though I am about to try dropping it because doveadm
   sync is already part of dovecot)

>>
>> The Internet Archive Wayback Machine comes to your aid :-)
>>
>> http://wayback.archive.org/web/20160305042051/http://roland.entierement.nu/blog/2010/09/08/gnus-dovecot-offlineimap-search-a-howto.html
>>
>> (I have no idea whether this page is in fact helpful though.)
>
> This link is helpful, but it did not actually help with getting the
> search to work. There was another discy=ussion abl=out using lucene in
> dovecot for the search, but as you, I would prefer notmuch search.
>
> I have simply defined a shortcut for me to do the search - much
> easier. You could even rebiung GG ?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rainer
>
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-- 
-Dave