Return-Path: X-Original-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org Delivered-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 360154196F2 for ; Sat, 12 Jun 2010 00:15:18 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -0.001 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.001 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[BAYES_40=-0.001] autolearn=ham Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id jHX9gXMENUs1 for ; Sat, 12 Jun 2010 00:15:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FA6A431FC1 for ; Sat, 12 Jun 2010 00:15:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ONKvn-0001vw-MP for notmuch@notmuchmail.org; Sat, 12 Jun 2010 09:15:03 +0200 Received: from ip4da73686.direct-adsl.nl ([77.167.54.134]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 12 Jun 2010 09:15:03 +0200 Received: from cwg by ip4da73686.direct-adsl.nl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 12 Jun 2010 09:15:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org connect(): No such file or directory From: Christoph Groth Subject: syncing mail by simply syncing the filesystem Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 09:13:07 +0200 Lines: 25 Message-ID: <87631obu64.fsf@falma.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip4da73686.direct-adsl.nl User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:T4bjD0yF/zljfTcg0leBXBZT8Dg= X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 07:15:18 -0000 Dear notmuch hackers and users, After 10 years of using Gnus I am considering to replace it with notmuch. On this occasion I would also like to make my e-mail-setup distributed in a way which does not require any central infrastructure, i.e. I would like to be able to read and write e-mail on several computers without relying on a central IMAP server. The ideal setup would be one which would allow to use any of my computers independently (for example when I'm away with my laptop). When necessary, the local mail stores would be synchronized by simply syncing the home directory (I'm using unison for this). Does anyone have a working setup like this? I'm grateful for any tips and ideas. Alternatively, if syncing using solely the file system does not work, I could setup dovecot on one of my machines and use it as a central IMAP server. On the clients I imagine a setup where mail would be fetched by fetchmail, handed over to procmail which would put it into the local maildir. This maildir would be synchronized with the IMAP server by offlineimap. Any experiences with a setup like this? Thanks, Christoph