Hi,

I am trying to setup a Gnus - Dovecot - Offlineimap - Webmail (Gmail / Fastmail) chain and cannot configure the correct behaviour.

Any advice to get this working properly would be very appreciated!

I have set up Offlineimap to synchronise two mail accounts into separate folders under ~/Maildir. After running Offlineimap, the folders look as below.

Maildir/ |-- Gmail | |-- cur | |-- dovecot.index.log | |-- dovecot-uidlist | |-- dovecot-uidvalidity | |-- dovecot-uidvalidity.4fd3b80e | |-- [Gmail].All\ Mail | |-- [Gmail].Drafts | |-- [Gmail].Important | |-- [Gmail].Sent\ Mail | |-- [Gmail].Spam | |-- [Gmail].Starred | |-- [Gmail].Trash | |-- INBOX | |-- new | |-- Personal | |-- Receipts | |-- tmp | |-- Travel | -- Work -- Fastmail |-- cur |-- dovecot.index.log |-- dovecot.mailbox.log |-- dovecot-uidlist |-- dovecot-uidvalidity |-- dovecot-uidvalidity.4fd3b75e |-- INBOX |-- INBOX.Drafts |-- INBOX.Sent\ Items `-- INBOX.Trash

The Dovecot config is below. (I have set up a blank "MailTest" directory as inbox, believing that this may preserve the two imap directories better for offlineimap synching (not sure if this is correct)).

,---- | mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir:LAYOUT=fs | | namespace inbox { | location = maildir:~/MailTest | inbox = yes | } | | namespace mygmail { | type = private | separator = . | prefix = "mygmail." | location = maildir:%h/Maildir/Gmail/:LAYOUT=fs | inbox = no | hidden = no | list = yes | subscriptions = yes | } | | namespace myfastmail { | type = private | separator = . | prefix = "myfastmail." | location = maildir:%h/Maildir/FASTMAIL/:LAYOUT=fs | inbox = no | hidden = no | list = yes | subscriptions = yes | } `----

Accessing dovecot through gnus with this setup only sees the files in the directories that are not prefixed (e.g. under Fastmail, INBOX is the only seen folder, all INBOX.subfolder are not there). Removing the prefix manually they can be seen again however (e.g. INBOX.subfolder -> subfolder). If I remove LAYOUT=fs in the dovecot config, nothing is seen at all, although the directories look like proper Maildirs!

A second issue is that running Offlineimap a second time seems to work ok for gmail, but Fastmail complains that "cannot create directory '.'"?

Thanks!

Johnny Dovecot 2.1.6 Offlineimap 6.5.2.1 Ma Gnus v0.6