For gmail how do you setup notmuch mail ?...

[Bhaskara Marthi]

On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 4:35 AM, Jani Nikula <jani at nikula.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:15:16 +0000, David Edmondson <dme at dme.org> wrote:
> > On Sat, 4 Feb 2012 03:39:23 -0500, don warner saklad <
> don.saklad at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > a) For gmail how do you setup notmuch mail ?...
> > >
> > > b) Any workarounds?
> > >
> > > c) Any kludges?
>
> I'll describe my own setup for using notmuch with gmail. I don't pretend
> it will work for everyone, but you might find some bits of it useful.
>
> I don't even try to sync notmuch tags and gmail labels (because I rarely
> use the labels or the web interface anyway), but I do get sync for
> "unread" and "flagged" (gmail and Android "starred"). You'll need
> maildir.synchronize_flags = true in your ~/.notmuch-config for this.
>

I'm using a similar setup.  An inconvenience with the setup is that I have
various filters in gmail that filter, e.g., mailing list mails by skipping
the gmail inbox and applying specific tags.  As a result when I look at my
gmail inbox, I don't see these (many) mailing list messages.  With
offlineimap+notmuch, however, since it just gets all the messages from
[Gmail]/All Mail, it has no way of distinguishing between these two classes
of messages, and so the notmuch new and unread message lists contain many
messages that I don't want to look at.  Ideally, I'd like a view in notmuch
that shows the same messages as the gmail inbox.  Is there a way to
accomplish this?
- b



>
> > Many people around here do that using offlineimap, which will
> > synchronise an IMAP server (Gmail in this instance) with various local
> > directories in Maildir format.
>
> I use offlineimap. I run it from the notmuch pre-new hook. This means I
> have to run "notmuch new" to receive new mail.
>
> $ cat ~/.maildir/.notmuch/hooks/pre-new
> #!/bin/sh
> exec /usr/bin/offlineimap
>
> I only sync "All Mail" from gmail. Perhaps there would be some
> optimizations that could be done, but I haven't bothered yet.
>
> $ cat ~/.offlineimaprc
> [general]
> accounts = Gmail
> ui = Noninteractive.Basic
>
> [Account Gmail]
> localrepository = Local
> remoterepository = Remote
>
> [Repository Local]
> type = Maildir
> localfolders = ~/.maildir
>
> [Repository Remote]
> type = IMAP
> ssl = yes
> remotehost = imap.gmail.com
> remoteuser = USER at gmail.com
> expunge = no
> realdelete = no
>
> folderfilter = lambda foldername: foldername in ['[Gmail]/All Mail']
> nametrans = lambda foldername: re.sub('^\[Gmail\]/All Mail', 'gmail',
> foldername)
>
> > Sending mail via Gmail can be done in various ways. You can set up your
> > local MTA (Postfix, Exim, ...) to deliver mail via Gmail, or have Emacs
> > do the same directly using the smtpmail.el package.
>
> Personally I use msmtp (msmtp and msmtp-mta packages in Debian based
> distros). The msmtp-mta sets up a sendmail-like binary that works out of
> the box in Emacs. Beware that it doesn't have a local queue, it works
> synchronously.
>
> $ cat ~/.msmtprc
> defaults
> logfile ~/.msmtp.log
> tls_trust_file /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
>
> account default
> host smtp.gmail.com
> from USER at gmail.com
> tls on
> tls_starttls off
> auth on
> user USER at gmail.com
>
> Finally, I use goobook to use the gmail contacts as addressbook in
> Emacs. See http://mid.gmane.org/87zkfuh3i0.fsf@nikula.org for that.
>
>
> HTH,
> Jani.
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