gmail -> offlineimap -> (local imap) -> alpine (under Ubuntu)

[Christopher Barrington-Leigh]

Thanks, Chris!
 This is not  a complete response to your help and questions, yet, but my
maildir folder was made by offlineimap, sourcing from gmail via imap but
writing locally directly (without a local imapd) and it
 does not look like what you describe.
It's ~/Maildir/mygmailaccount/ and in that are many named folders, each
including cur, new, tmp, and one of which is called INBOX.

Thanks,
Chris

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Chris Dennis <cgdennis at btinternet.com>wrote:

> It's hard to describe how frustrated I am. I have a perfectly working
>> latest Ubuntu system, think I know how to google, and have spent
>> thousands of dollars of my time going in circles trying to set this up,
>> based on so many people's partial instructions or statements that it
>> should be easy.
>>
>
> Hopefully this will help -- I don't know how much of this you know already.
>
> My setup is:
>
> $ sudo dovecot -n
> # 1.2.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> # OS: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 i686 Debian 6.0.2
> log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S
> login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
> login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login
> mail_privileged_group: mail
> mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock
> imap_client_workarounds: outlook-idle
> auth default:
>  passdb:
>    driver: pam
>  userdb:
>    driver: passwd
>
> Note that mail_location defaults to 'maildir:~/Maildir', i.e. each user's
> ~/Maildir.
>
> Dovecot needs each mailbox to contain directories named 'cur', 'new', and
> 'tmp'.  The command 'maildirmake.dovecot' will set them up for you.
>
>
>
>> Nothing like this is "obvious" without an explicit list of actions. I
>> cannot do it, and I don't have any explicit questions, because I don't
>> know where to start. From what I read, there are many things that might
>> need changing in multiple config files, and everything I've tried
>> doesn't work.
>>
>> At the moment, dovecot -n says:
>>
>> # 2.0.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
>> # OS: Linux 3.0.0-13-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 11.10
>> mail_location =
>> maildir:~/Maildir/gmailCpbl:**LAYOUT=fs:INBOX=~/Maildir/**gmailCpbl/INBOX
>> passdb {
>> driver = pam
>> }
>> protocols = " imap"
>> ssl = no
>> userdb {
>> driver = passwd
>> }
>>
>>
>>
>> and while dovecot seems to be running,
>>
>
> What's in dovecot's log?  or in syslog?
>
>
> > alpine fails to get a response
>
>> from localhost,993. Also, "dovecot --exec-mail imap" fails, claiming the
>> option doesn't exist.
>>
>
> Could it be a firewall issue?
>
> cheers
>
> Chris
>
> --
> Chris Dennis                                  cgdennis at btinternet.com
> Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK
>
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