- this method isn't as deprecated as IMAP LOGIN;
- it allows to keep hashed passwords on the server side;
- it has the ability to specify that the remote identity
is different from authenticating username, so it even
can be useful in some cases (e.g., migrated mailboxes);
configuration variable "remote_identity" was introduced
to leverage this functionality.
From: Andreas Mack <andreas.mack@konsec.com>
Signed-off-by: Eygene Ryabinkin <rea@codelabs.ru>
* Germany (and Austria) now use GMail as the base folder names.
* Suggests users to check their spam and trash folder names
and set them appropriately.
From: Bart Kerkvliet <bkerkvliet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eygene Ryabinkin <rea@codelabs.ru>
Fixed some minor typos in the commented config file.
I think these days Google also uses Gmail in Germany, so also changed
German Google Mail to German Gmail.
mutt-sidebar and, probably, other MUA show mailboxes in the order
they are listed in the file written by mbnames. Therefore, to allow
customization of the order with which mailboxes are listed, introduce
the new 'sort_keyfunc' directive in the [mbnames] section.
'sort_keyfunc' must be a function that will be called once for each
mailbox. It must accept the only argument -- a dict with 2 items,
'accountname' and 'foldername', and should return an object that
will be used as the sorting key for each mailbox.
Default key function returns (d['accountname'], d['foldername']),
thus sorting by account name and then by the folder name.
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Eygene Ryabinkin <rea@codelabs.ru>
They are redundant in all pruned cases and sometimes even create some
problems, e.g., when one tries to jump through paragraphs in vi.
Signed-off-by: Eygene Ryabinkin <rea@codelabs.ru>
We now allow setting the SSL version used when connecting to IMAPS servers, and
do so via the `ssl_version` configuration option. We default to the current
practice (letting python's "ssl" library automatically detect the correct
version). There are however rare cases where one must specify the version to
use.
Signed-off-by: Ryan Kavanagh <rak@debian.org>
By default OfflineImap propagates new folders in both
directions. Sometimes this is not what you want. E.g. you might want
new folders on your IMAP server to propagate to your local MailDir,
but not the other way around. The 'readonly' setting on a repository
will not help here, as it prevents any change from occuring on that
repository. This is what the `createfolders` setting is for. By
default it is `True`, meaning that new folders can be created on this
repository. To prevent folders from ever being created on a
repository, set this to `False`. If you set this to False on the
REMOTE repository, you will not have to create the `Reverse
nametrans`_ rules on the LOCAL repository.
Also implement a test for this
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
We use python's SafeConfigParser, and this is a built in "feature" used
for interpolating variables. But it imples that '%' needs encoding as
'%%'.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Fill in more details on nametrans and folder filtering. Also give them a
separate section in our user documentation. Everything will be
immediately online at docs.offlineimap.org.
The main change is to describe the reverse nametrans settings that are
needed since 6.4.0 to support remote folder creation.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
By default we sort folders alphabetically (for IMAP) according to their
transposed names. For python3, we need to bend a bit backwards to still
allow the use of a cmp() function for foldersort. While going through, I
discovered that we never sort folders for Maildir.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
It can lead to potential dataloss (see recent commit log where I added a
scary warning about it to offlineimap.conf).
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Comment out all values that are the default values and make it a bit
more consistent in general. We should have a man page for those values,
really.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
WARNING: I consider the Gmail "realdelete" option as harmful with the
potential for DATALOSS. Add scary warnings to offlineimap.conf.
See the analysis at
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.imap.offlineimap.general/5265
Deleting a message from a Gmail folder via the IMAP interface will just
remove that folder's label from the message: the message will continue
to exist in the '[Gmail]/All Mail' folder. If `realdelete` is set to
`True`, then deleted messages will be moved to the '[Gmail]/Trash'
folder. BEWARE: this will immediately delete a messages from *all
folders* it belongs to!
AS OFFLINEIMAP IMPLEMENTS FOLDER MOVES AS 1) AN ADD and 2) A DELETE (the
order can vary), THIS MEANS THAT A FOLDER MOVE CAN CAUSE DATALOSS. DO
NOT USE IT AND MOVE MAIL TO "[Gmail]/Trash" TO DELETE MAIL FROM
"[Gmail]/All Mail"!
We will need to discuss whether to completely disable that feature.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
I stumbled upon a few typos in the config file coming with master and just
patched them. Apply as you like.
Signed-off-by: dtk <dtk@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Better document what this actually does and that most people won't be
needing it.
(Especially as mount setting such as relatime|noatime now reduce the
amount of atime changes anyway)
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
If we connect to a SSL server (not STARTTLS) and no CA cert has been
specified for verification, we check the configured SSL fingerprint and
bail out in case it has not been set yet, or it does not match.
This means one more mandatory option for SSL configuration, but it
improves security a lot.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
SafeConfigParser is very similar to the currently used ConfigParser but
it supports interpolation. This means values can contain format strings
which refer to other values in the same section, or values in a special
DEFAULT section. For example:
[My Section]
foodir: %(dir)s/whatever
dir=frob
would resolve the %(dir)s to the value of dir (frob in this case). All reference expansions are done on demand.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
Both have been in a stable release and we have never gotten negative
feedback about them. I have been using sqlite exclusively for some time
and people seem actively to use the IDLE folders without major problems.
This patch removes the scary: "THIS IS EXPERIMENTAL" warning, that I
know has kept some people from using it. Do note that the plaintext
backend is still the default even with this patch.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
The text was confusing and not very helpful. Do away with the bad
folderfilters examples and describe a bit more what they are for.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
Allowing to specify the char to use in the BLinkenlights is a bit over
the top and bloats our default offlineimap.conf. The dot is just fine,
so let us settle for it and cut the example config file by an unneeded
section.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
That makes OfflineIMAP to use exclamation mark (!) instead of colon for storing
messages. Such files can be written to windows partitions. But you will probably
loose compatibility with other programs trying to read the same Maildir.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Marek <vladimir.marek@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
Mark this option as experimental and document its shortcomings in
MANUAL.rst.
This code was originally by James Bunton <jamesbunton@fastmail.fm>.
Signed-off-by: Ethan Glasser-Camp <ethan@betacantrips.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
Depending on the configuration we use the plain text or the new
experimental sqlite backend for the LocalStatus cache. Make plain text
the default status backend but allow people to configure
status_backend=sqlite in their [Account ...] section.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
This commit enables true 1-way syncing between repositories. This has
often been demanded for backup purposes when you do not want to cause
accidental modifications of your backup that would be propagated to the
other side.
This has been implemented by allowing to configure a Repository as
'readonly' to forbid any modification on it.
'readonly' applies to all the type of repositories.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Kahle <tomka@gentoo.org>
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
Make clear that quick syncs do not happen inbetween full syncs (ie they
are part of the regular autorefresh intervals and don't happen within
them). This part of the documentation had confused many.
Signed-off-by: dtk <d.t.k@gmx.de>
Modified-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
Document that only one user name per host name can be given via netrc
file. Reformat the enumeration text.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
The previous ui names were pretty unwieldy. Is it TTYUI.TTY or
TTY.TTYUI? Do I have to use capitals and where?
Simplify the names by making them case insensitive and by dropping
everything before the dot.
So "Curses.Blinkenlights" can now be invoked as "blinkenlights" or
"BLINKENLIGHTS". The old names will still work just fine so the
transition should be smooth. We issue a warning that the long names are
deprecated.
Document in offlineimap.conf that we don't accept lists of fallback UIs,
but only one UI option (this was already the case before this commit but
still wrongly documented).
The list of accepted ui names is:
ttyui (default), basic, quiet, machineui, blinkenlights
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
Multithreading speeds up account syncing a lot and the offlineimap
defaults are very conservative. Let's make it use 2 IMAP connections by
default to gain some of the benefits that offlineimap offers.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
It was not clear how the reference value is used. Improve this by exposing
the internal path build system for the 'reference' option so that users
know what value is expected.
Also, explain how it impacts both nametrans and folderfilter options.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
Note in the example configuration file that CA cert files should be in
PEM format.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
The sample configuration file includes a minor misspelling in the
sslcacertfile variable, fixed herein.
Signed-off-by: Ethan Schoonover <es@ethanschoonover.com>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
Previously, we did not check at all the authenticy and validity of
the SSL server we connected to. This is bad as it allows
man-in-the-middle attacks etc. This patch remedies the situation
somewhat.
If we specify a sslcacertfile= setting in the Repository section,
validate the server cert (on python>=2.6 or abort with python<=2.5).
As before, no certificate check is performed without that option.
In the future, the hostname check should be made optional and also
a mutt-lick "accept this certificate forever" thing should be
implemented.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
Dear All,
Attached is the patch that I have developed to provide maxage and
maxsize options. You can thus sync only the last x days of messages and
exclude large messages. All details in the attached git file.
Regards,
-Mike
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From 04fead2b46a79675a5b29de6f2b4088b9c9448e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mike <mike@mikelaptop.(none)>
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 17:00:49 +0430
Subject: [PATCH] Patch to provide maxage and maxsize account options to exclude old/large messages
This is designed to make offlineimap even better for low bandwidth connections.
maxage allows you to specify a number of days and only messages within
that range will be considered by offlineimap for the sync. This can be
useful if you would like to start using offlineimap with a large
existing account and do not want to import large archives of mail.
maxsize allows you to specify the maximum size of a message to consider so
that you can exclude messages with large attachments etc.
In both cases the cachemessagelist function of the folder was modified to ignore
messages that do not meet the criteria. If the criteria are not specified
then the existing code will be executed the same as before. If a message
does not meet the criteria it will be as though this message does not exist
- offlineimap will completely ignore it. It will not have flags updated,
it will not be deleted, it will not be considered at all.
When operating against an IMAP repository a server side search function
is used. This of course requires support for server side search.
I have tested this with either option, no options etc. against IMAP, Maildir
and Gmail. I have run variations of this patch here for the last 3 weeks or
so syncing about 4 accounts normally.
Andreas Mack
Bart Kerkvliet
Johan Herland
Eygene Ryabinkin
Dmitrijs Ledkovs
Ryan Kavanagh
Chris Pick
Sebastian Spaeth
dtk
Vladimir Marek
Ethan Glasser-Camp
Thomas Kahle
dtk
Nicolas Sebrecht
Ethan Schoonover
John Goerzen
Mike Dawson
James Bunton