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Author SHA1 Message Date
Sebastian Spaeth f5b82ad76d Improve nametrans user documentation
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>
2012-02-13 16:09:32 +01:00
Sebastian Spaeth 340c2f9a89 Improve documentation
Improve wording, and integrate the MANUAL and INSTALL and FAQ documents
into our complete user manual that is hosted online.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
2012-01-17 01:34:56 +01:00
Sebastian Spaeth 00c67881a0 docs/MANUAL: How to upgrade to sqlite storage
Add section to the manual describing how to upgrade to the new cache
backend.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
2012-01-06 19:35:56 +01:00
Sebastian Spaeth e707bc530b Fix quotation marks
I guess they looked identical to whoever wrote that, but here the
the first had a space with a combining grave accent where the second has
a plain space and a plain backquote instead.

Reported-by: Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
2011-10-03 14:22:08 +02:00
Sebastian Spaeth 3f7749016f Reformat MANUAL line breaks
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
2011-09-30 08:41:05 +02:00
Sebastian Spaeth b50668434e docs/*: Documentation enhancements
Improve wordings and descriptions all around.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
2011-09-29 14:55:59 +02:00
Thomas Kahle 3d00a8bb4a MANUAL: Improve documentation on using python code in the config
Hi, the following patch updates the documentation.  It was a bit out of
context since Sebastian originally just copied it from my webpage.
Also, the code for the helper functions is available there under
"Download".  I did not include it because it would leave larger chunks
of python code in the manual which seems weird.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Kahle <tomka@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
2011-09-23 15:01:31 +02:00
Nicolas Sebrecht f10e3a58fc MANUAL: fix typo about variable declaration in configuration file
I included a wrong change in commit dcfdf2ade7 writen by Sebastian.

As he said:

	> I think the first colon should be an equals sign...  :-)

	Actually no, this was on purpose.

	http://docs.python.org/library/configparser.html:

	[My Section]
	foodir: %(dir)s/whatever
	dir=frob
	long: this value continues
   	in the next line

Reported-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
2011-08-30 22:05:44 +02:00
Sebastian Spaeth dcfdf2ade7 MANUAL.rst: folderfilter->nametrans typo
We really wanted nametrans here, also simplify the lambda per
Dan Christensen's suggestion.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
2011-08-29 21:42:43 +02:00
Sebastian Spaeth 3333723ce7 Improve our MANUAL
Make it contain real use cases and more explanations. We probably need
to add more of the FAQ entries to the MANUAL and point to relevant FAQ
entries from the manual.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
2011-08-26 21:07:55 +02:00
Thomas Kahle c4320786ab Fix manpage build failures from inconsistent heading
Signed-off-by: Mark Foxwell <fastfret79@archlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Kahle <tomka@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
2011-08-14 16:51:27 +02:00
Luca Capello 5db1633afe docs/MANUAL.rst: remove leftover reference to old interface name
This fixes Debian bug #629502.

Signed-off-by: Luca Capello <luca@pca.it>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
2011-07-13 18:35:38 +02:00
Nicolas Sebrecht 7fe5e14611 Merge branch 'vm/windows-maildir' into next
Conflicts:
	docs/MANUAL.rst
2011-07-12 21:59:10 +02:00
Vladimir Marek 6995eeb92e Support maildir for windows
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>
2011-07-12 21:53:33 +02:00
Sebastian Spaeth d5020c1d82 MANUAL.rst: Improve with Perf tips and SSL notes
Write up some tips in the manual on how to improve performance and some
notes on how we currently use SSL, to be clear and transparent on what
level of security users get by the various means of connecting via
SSL/TLS.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
2011-07-10 16:10:43 +02:00
Ethan Glasser-Camp 52cefb582c Recognize configuration for idlefolders
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>
2011-05-24 18:55:46 +02:00
Sebastian Spaeth 89619838b0 Remove weird SigListener class
The SigListener class was used to queue folders that we need to sync and
to receive "resync" and "abort" signals. It was undocumented and weird
and we had to pass "siglisteners" through the whole program.

Simply do away with it, and make 2 functions in the Account() class:
set_abort_event and get_abort_event which can be used to set and check
for such signals. This way we do not need to pass siglisteners all over
the place. Tested Blinkenlights and TTYUI uis to make sure that SIGUSR1
and SIGUSR2 actually still work.

Document those signals in MANUAL.rst. They were completly undocumented.

This simplifies the code and interdependencies by passing less stuff
around. Removes an undocumented and weirdly named class.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
2011-05-08 14:25:16 +02:00
Sebastian Spaeth 4e28c7c93f Allow to use nicer UI names
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>
2011-03-06 15:33:29 +01:00
Nicolas Sebrecht b616507b93 manual: add comment about the "SSL3 write pending" bug
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
2011-02-21 11:51:50 +01:00
Nicolas Sebrecht 6eb56364e7 doc: migrate from SGML to restructuredtext
This is a great move to help contributors in maintaining documentation.

While doing huge changes in this area, do a bit more than simply SGML to rst:

 * move README from markdown to rst
 * make a "true" man page with no more information
 * refactor content and sections

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
2011-01-15 16:48:30 +01:00