Questions tagged [offlineimap]
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Tagging mail with "notmuch" marks them as old
After syncing my local maildir inboxes with offlineimap and performing spam filtering and sorting using fdm+bogofilter, I tag the messages in the mail store using notmuch.
Up until recently, I used ...
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Any successor to “Open all links” of Thunderbird?
For the ancient Thunderbird 1.5, there was an add-on “Open all links”, which, according to its description, opened “all http(s) links in an e-mail message with a single click”. A development of this ...
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Batch extract pdf from emails on Debian in bash
What I'm trying to achieve: I am trying to send pdf documents to my Remarkable 2 tablet via email.
How I'm trying to do it:
I set up rmfakecloud: a software that runs on your server and emulates the ...
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does mbsync know i deleted folders?
Newly working with neomutt and mbsync. I did an initial grab of all my mail and folders which was fine.
Then I started organizing my folders and mail. Some of the folders (or "mailboxes") ...
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How to send mail when using offlineimap?
I've only ever used GUI mail clients like Thunderbird, and want to try using offlineimap with alpine. However I'm confused about how it all ties together.
As I understand it:
Once I configure ...
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Offlineimap: python code to read refresh token from unix pass (or gpg file)
I use offlineimap to organize my emails, and in order to use my work account I am now obliged to use OAuth2 authentication.
I successfully got a refresh-token, and thus offlineimap works if I set the ...
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Easiest IMAP archiver for multiple accounts
I'm pretty new to linux, Im running Ubuntu at the moment. On windows I was using a service called "mailstore" to archive the entire contents of multiple email accounts. I've seen a few ...
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Can mutt handle exclamation points instead of colons in file names?
I'm wanting to move my maildir folder to a different disk that has a Window file system. However, the file system does not allow colons (:) in file names, which Maildir uses in some file names by ...
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CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED when connecting to GMail with offlineimap
Under an Arch Linux, I want to use offlineimap to synchronize to GMail like this.
[general]
accounts = Gmail
maxsyncaccounts = 3
[Account Gmail]
localrepository = LocalGmail
remoterepository = ...
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Sync gmail using mbsync (isync) on debian linux using XOAUTH2
I am trying to sync my mails from gmail to my local mail server using mbsync. But i keep getting an error Error: SASL(-4): no mechanism available: No worthy mechs found
Here is my .mbsyncrc file:
#...
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How do I force offlineimap to use python2.7?
I'm setting up a new computer and installed offlineimap with pip install --user offlineimap but when I try to run it I'm getting a series of errors because offlineimap doesn't support Python3:
https:/...
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How to sync email contacts between computers for use in mutt?
I'm using mutt as email client. Specifically, this is my setup:
Mail is stored at a remote hosting company.
Mail is retrieved locally using OfflineIMAP.
I have two mail accounts: one personal and one ...
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Complete command line email retrieval for IMAP IDLE
I'm trying to retrieve my mail from command line, and they use mu4e to read them. However, it turns out to be a nightmare to find a program that can do the following stuff:
downloads the mail from an ...
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can we encrypt any field in offlineimaprc?
If you are using offlineimap to sync for example with gmail one can encrypt the password and use a python script to decrypt it on runtime. This is done via setting
remotepass = passwd('gmail.gpg')
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Why is my offlineimap folderfilter not working?
I have a series of folders that I deleted from my SMTP server but they still exist on my local machine. I'd like to keep them from syncing to the server. The folders all follow a pretty basic naming ...
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OfflineIMAPS and CA certificates
This question is about offlineimaps but with the given opportunity I'd like resources to learn more about ssl certificates and the whole deal with them.
I downloaded the latest offlineimaps (7.0.6) ...
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offlineimap : How to prevent moved messages to be marked as new after synchronization?
I am using offlineimap 6.3.4 on a Debian system to synchronize my emails with two different IMAP servers (running Zimbra) and a MS Exchange server (through davmail). Everything is OK except the ...
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Sync mail with offlineimap via systemd service/timer; getting password from gnome keyring
I am trying to autosync my mail in mutt using offlineimap via a systemd service. I am using these files and have moved them to the /etc/systemd/user folder.
However, I am storing my password via the ...
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Systemd Service for Offlineimap + gpg encrypted PW's inside tmux works manually after system start but not autmoatically
Short description, what i'm searching for:
I want to have a detached tmux session automatically started as a systemd user service. Inside that, offlineimap should start and decrypt my login ...
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How do I restart offlineimap?
I have offlineimap running on a cron job with */10 * * * * offlineimap -q -u quiet. Every once in a while it seems to get interrupted, and when that happens I can't restart it. If I try to run it from ...
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parallel execution of offlineimap or abuse pythonfile/postsynchook to load second file for account settings
Why do i need that?
I've set up my dotfiles to include my whole email configuration, but i don't want to share my my private email account settings, so i excluded them.
=> For my mutt/offlineimap i ...
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(offlineimap) Email directory still empty after successful connection; force methods don't make any difference
i have newly installed offlineimap, but after the first start my maildirectory is still empty. Furthermoore, the methods described here http://offlineimap.org/doc/FAQ.html#can-i-force-offlineimap-to-...
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Migrating mail to a new server using OfflineIMAP - dot folders not copied
I am trying to migrate mails from a server to a new server using OfflineIMAP.
My config looks like:
[general]
accounts = TestAccount
ui = noninteractive.Basic
[Account TestAccount]
localrepository =...
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OfflineIMAP tells me SQLite isn't installed, even though it is
Whenever I run OfflineIMAP v6.5.3.1 I get an error for every folder (i.e. tag and folder in Gmail) which tells me there was a problem and then right after it tells me:
SQLite backend chosen, but no ...
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Unable to use OfflineIMAP to sync Gmail
I'm trying to setup OfflineIMAP to sync my Gmail account to ~/Mail/Gmail. I'm using a pretty basic ~/.offlineimaprc from here. But OfflineIMAP doesn't connect to Gmail at all. This is the debug ...
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Encrypt OfflineIMAP Password
I'm trying to set up OfflineIMAP to authenticate via a gpg encrypted file (that way I can consolidate all my encryption to my gpg-agent process).
From the documentation, it seems the only way to ...
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