Graham Cobb | # 11 | 2010-06-10, 20:31 | Report

extras-devel

Just submit the source packages to the autobuilder. Then anyone who wants them can easily find them.

sirloon | # 12 | 2010-06-11, 15:24 | Report

Hi guys,

I tried to improve the tutorial by providing instructions to launch dovecot and offlineimap at boot time. I've also explained how to setup offlineimap so it refreshes itself, instead of letting alarmed taking care of this. Finally, there are also few words about defining subscriptions for Modest.

http://wiki.maemo.org/Improving_Mode...nc_reliability

Let me know if you're facing troubles.

Cheers,
Seb

sirloon | # 13 | 2010-06-11, 15:24 | Report

OK, I'll try, though there's more work to be done in order to get decent deb packages files

Cheers
Seb

matthew_exon | # 14 | 2010-06-12, 11:54 | Report

My, what a coincidence, I've just made available my patched version of Modest that includes this functionality built-in :-)

Tinymail has in fact supported offline sync for IMAP folders since before it forked from Camel. But it's also been broken all that time, and there was no way to switch it on through Modest. So I added that. Not a lot of code really, although it was a pretty steep learning curve for me. Packages are available from here:

http://mat.exon.name/modest/

And the thread where I've been talking about it:

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=55771

There are many limitations to this, not least that I have strong doubts this functionality will ever be accepted upstream and eventually make it's way into a new release. So it's definitely a good thing that the dovecot/offlineimap solution is also available.

In fact, the dovecot solution sounds spookily familiar to the solution I ended up with on my N810. But I hacked up my own perl script instead of using offlineimap. At any rate, sounds like you had an easier time building dovecot than I did under Diablo:

http://mat.exon.name/logs/maemo

This is progress!

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sirloon | # 15 | 2010-06-14, 07:34 | Report

Yes, I've seen your post few days ago too ! Didn't give a try though. I don't know if your patch will be applied but there seems to be sync problems that would also need to be solved. Delegating this to offlineimap seems to solve the problem for me.

Dovecot is just here to expose maildir through IMAP, don't you have any plan to patch Modest to support maildirs ? I also tried to manually change modest files so they would point on another maildir, but it's not elegant at all and cause some troubles while configuring account IIRC.

Cheers
Seb

singpolyma | # 16 | 2010-08-05, 18:43 | Report

How are you all able to do this? The colons maildir puts in filenames are a problem for my N900 on the FAT-only filesystems...

sirloon | # 17 | 2010-08-06, 08:04 | Report

offlineimap uses ":" as suffix separator so, as you mention, you can't make it point to use a FATpartition. There's no configuration option, so we're kind of stuck to non-FAT partitions (which you sure should have). Only patching offlineimap would help, I found this, about running it under Cygwin: http://wiki.yobi.be/wiki/Courier-Cygwin#Offlineimap. I didn't try it though...

Cheers,
Seb

lma | # 18 | 2010-08-06, 08:50 | Report

Well, the colon is part of the Maildir spec so if you go down that route you'd have to also patch dovecot or message flags will be broken (and possibly mutt as well if you ever want to access the Maildir store directly).