Accessing offlineimap synchronized mail through a local dovecot

[Rainer M Krug]

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On 12/04/13, 20:35 , Lucien Pullen wrote:
> Also sprach Alan Schmitt on 2013-12-04:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I'm trying to set up a local dovecot to read some mail
>> synchronized through offlineimap. Unfortunately, it seems that
>> dovecot does not see the mailboxes. Here are their names:
>> 
>> Drafts INBOX [...]
>> 
>> I'm not using any renaming on the folders, just filtering out
>> some of them. So I guess the problem is the missing '.' in front
>> of every folder name.
>> 
>> How can I change my offlineimap configuration[...]?
> 
> Are you storing locally as type=Maildir?  Dovecot doesn't use the
> same filesystem layout as pure Maildir; here are some details:
> 
> /dovecot-maildir + dovecot-uidlist + dovecot-uidvalidity + /cur
> # INBOX + /new      # INBOX's new + /tmp      # INBOX's tmp +
> /.Drafts |   + dovecot-uidlist |   + /cur |   + /new |   ` /tmp 
> ...
> 
> I had originally configured as locally with dovecot.  I did: 
> =====BEGIN LOCAL REPOSITORY===== type = IMAP preauthtunnel =
> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap -o
> mail_location=maildir:$HOME/Mail/offlineimap-account ======END
> LOCAL REPOSITORY======

I am using this for a long time, and it works without problems. If you
want to use dovecot (or any other imap client on your locally stored
mails), leave the storage details to dovecot - it knows exactly how to
do it and you are not in for nasty surprises.

Cheers,

Rainer

> 
> I would back up your metadata= and localfolders= directories (or
> the relevant accounts in them, if you have more than one) and start
> from scratch.
> 
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> 

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