Sam Flint <harmonicn...@gmail.com> writes: > Gnus supports IMAP natively, and even ManageSieve. Use that, don't > run a proxy, it's a lot easier. I know. I'm using dovecot because I'm getting mail from an extremely slow connection, so Gnus blocks the Emacs UI for several seconds, making Emacs unusable. Using a local server eliminates that problem.
> On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 4:19 AM, Steffen Kaiser > <skdove...@smail.inf.fh-brs.de> wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On Thu, 8 Aug 2013, John Williams wrote: >> >>>> in order to not filter the same message twice or re-filter messages, >>>> you've moved around manually? >>> >>> That is not a problem. The filtering process works perfectly when I >>> manually invoke dovecot-lda. My problem is that I have followed the >>> instructions here: >>> >>> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LDA/ >>> >>> and here: >>> >>> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LDA/Sendmail >>> >>> and here: >>> >>> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LMTP >>> >>> but neither dovecot-lda nor LMTP seem to be triggered whenever I send >>> email from my MUA (Gnus). At least, I *think* I have followed the >>> instructions correctly. Would you like me to post my dovecot config >>> again, and the relevant portion of sendmail.cf? >>> >>> Thank you very much for your help, I truly appreciate it. >> >> >> As Stan already pointed out: a local delivery takes place only, when the >> mail arrives via a MTA. offlineimap synchronizes two IMAP folders, there is >> no local delivery at your side at all. Hence, neither LDA nor LMTP is >> invoked. >> >> So I see two ways: >> >> 1) keep offlineimap to resync your local store back to the server and keep >> both in-sync. >> >> Then you can: >> 1a) run offlineimap to get new messages from the upstream server and sync >> current local messages. >> 1b) remove the new ones from the local store and feed them _manually_ to the >> LDA or LMTP. Now the filtering takes place and they are re-added to the mail >> storage. >> 1c) maybe: re-run the process until no new messages got downloaded, in order >> to keep the server in-sync >> >> 2) no need for server messages in-sync with local message store >> >> 2a) setup a local MTA that accepts your domain and drops messages via >> Dovecot LDA or LMTP. Then get the new messages via fetchmail on a regular >> basis and hand the messages over to the local MTA. >> >> 2b) use fetchmail in combination with Dovecot LDA/LMTP. No local MTA >> necessary. >> >> fetchmail will see only messages in INBOX as far as I know. So no filtering >> on the server must take place. >> >> >> - -- Steffen Kaiser >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) >> >> iQEVAwUBUgNiqV3r2wJMiz2NAQISSAgAnSWnyf4kzNrbEd/+UcZGvmeegCWp4QY3 >> TWAIh8V8vbo+FyKyYomvRLt1mmq5CKJNwOUdz+A3u5R6XT25JZKxA5yYhUKlLNEU >> n05zIsmWvKV6DWahdTv7GL84kmyETqp7zYo5pBWRf9SqwGFH8+KcBGh1U3MTaKhQ >> QfzIj3eYk7a1DQld7u3ZaLSiKCBadWCakgNscY2mX+gzoN4EXt+X1zMO52uaZpJ3 >> QkJyd2AHrnpYgBbmr2maneYox3+67IyQChnzZ0t2c9uPodT4ukEkZFYjrucEGlfv >> JEUaOaVnuzx/Wi7gxSUL/agSiaksLaEkT/KMWS6wQMSI0NxUaGIHjQ== >> =f/Uy >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Lecturer Department of Marketing University of Otago Dunedin, New Zealand
