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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.Fothergill@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

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using offlineimap, notmuch and emacs etc.... Michael Fothergill <michael.fothergill@gmail.com> - 2017-01-07 14:40 +0100
  Re: using offlineimap, notmuch and emacs etc.... Mattia Oss <mais.toast@gmail.com> - 2017-01-07 15:20 +0100
    Re: using offlineimap, notmuch and emacs etc.... Michael Fothergill <michael.fothergill@gmail.com> - 2017-01-07 16:20 +0100
      Re: using offlineimap, notmuch and emacs etc.... Mattia Oss <mais.toast@gmail.com> - 2017-01-07 17:10 +0100
  Re: using offlineimap, notmuch and emacs etc.... Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> - 2017-01-07 17:30 +0100
    Re: using offlineimap, notmuch and emacs etc.... Michael Fothergill <michael.fothergill@gmail.com> - 2017-01-07 18:10 +0100

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