Thunderbird instead of mbsync/offlineimap as a maildir downloader and how to use it with mu/mu4e

[zeltak brisbane]

Hi all 

so i have been having issue with both  mbsync and offlineimap in the last years and just couldent get them to reliably play nice with mu4e 

today i saw this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/65z86j/tip_for_those_who_like_to_read_email_in_emacs_you/

I was wondering if anyone has any experience with this?

i have tried it and it seems to be indeed storing my gmail mail in maildir format but the directory structure seems very different from mbsync/offlineimap and i couldnt get mu/mu4e to work with this

any tips would be greatly appreciated

best

Z

[Yuri D'Elia]

On Thu, Apr 20 2017, zeltak brisbane wrote:
> https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/65z86j/tip_for_those_who_like_to_read_email_in_emacs_you/
>
> I was wondering if anyone has any experience with this?

TB support for maildir is incomplete. See:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=845952

I wouldn't recommend using TB with maildir storage even for stand-alone
use, let alone as a sync tool.

[Eduardo Mercovich]

Hi Zeltak.

> so i have been having issue with both mbsync and offlineimap in
> the last years and just couldent get them to reliably play nice
> with mu4e

> https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/65z86j/tip_for_those_who_like_to_read_email_in_emacs_you/
> [...]

> i have tried it and it seems to be indeed storing my gmail mail
> in maildir format but the directory structure seems very
> different from mbsync/offlineimap and i couldnt get mu/mu4e to
> work with this

I searched for maildir compatible solutions before finding mu4e
and as Yuri says, Thunderbird support for maildir is not ok, at
least yet.

I tried both offlineimap and mbsync and -as many others reported
too- found the second to be much more reliable, fast and less
resource hungry.

If you don't mind, maybe we can help to diagnose what happened
with mbsync?

Best...


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