Dear Folks,
I have installed the utility offlineimap which is somewhat new to me.
I found a web site that explained how to use it in combination with emacs
and notmuch for organising your email etc. if you have a gmail account
which I do....
The site kindly listed a short script that you could use with a gmail
account.
I used it to produce something that would work for me (I hoped).
Here it is:
mikef@rhinoceros:~$ more ~/.offlineimaprc
[general]
accounts = mikefGmail
[Account mikefGmail]
localrepository = Local
remoterepository = MichaelFothergillGmail
[Repository Local]
type = Maildir
localfolders = ~/Mail
[Repository MichaelFothergillGmail]
type = Gmail
maxconnections=1
remoteuser = michael.fotherg...@gmail.com
realdelete=no
folderfilter = lambda foldername: foldername in ['[Google Mail]/All
Mail', '[Google Mail]/Sent Mail']
nametrans = lambda foldername: re.sub('^\[Google Mail\]/All Mail$', 'all',
re.sub('^\[Google Mail\]/Sent Mail$', 'sent',foldername))
sslcacertfile = /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
remotepass = *********
I logged into Gmail and set the imap option on.
I also went to the section on adding app passwords and entered offlineimap
as the app and got it to produce a password for it which I entered in the
remotepass line above.
I then ran the offlineimap command:
mikef@rhinoceros:~$ offlineimap
OfflineIMAP 6.3.4
Copyright 2002-2011 John Goerzen & contributors.
Licensed under the GNU GPL v2+ (v2 or any later version).
Account sync mikefGmail:
***** Processing account mikefGmail
Copying folder structure from Gmail to Maildir
Establishing connection to imap.gmail.com:993.
***** Finished processing account mikefGmail
I then thought that might be working ie downloading copies of emails from
my gmail account on to my PC here.
In /home/mikef directory I have a Mail folder and now a .offlineimap
directory (there are other files and directories not listed here):
drwx------ 2 mikef mikef 4096 Jan 5 13:02 Mail
drwx------ 4 mikef mikef 4096 Feb 8 2016 .mozilla
drwxr-xr-x 2 mikef mikef 4096 Feb 8 2016 Music
drwx------ 5 mikef mikef 4096 Jan 7 11:54 .offlineimap
The .offlineimap directory contains the following directories
root@rhinoceros:/home/mikef/.offlineimap# ls
Account-mikefGmail lock pid Repository-Local
Repository-MichaelFothergillGmail
If you move into these directories there further ones underneath.
The /home/mikef/Mail directory is empty......
My question is this:
If the email download process was actually occurring where would the file
created with them in it be located?
I thought it would sit in the /home/mikef/Mail directory but it does not
seem to be there.
Suggestions on this are welcome.
Regards
Michael Fothergill
