X-Git-Url: https://git.cworth.org/git?p=notmuch-wiki;a=blobdiff_plain;f=software.mdwn;h=8200f18749bb6e3b535417645bb52b21a9f547a7;hp=25fb6e6ba9e5feefb6b142602dcc9e982d511a25;hb=HEAD;hpb=bd153e5b3e21ba6eedb72fd9774eaea605c760b4 diff --git a/software.mdwn b/software.mdwn index 25fb6e6..8200f18 100644 --- a/software.mdwn +++ b/software.mdwn @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ [[!img notmuch-logo.png alt="Notmuch logo" class="left"]] -# Sofware working with Maildir and Notmuch +# Software working with Maildir and Notmuch ## **Mail storage formats** @@ -97,6 +97,13 @@ Have a separate [[wiki page|frontends]]. ? work in progress + + lieer + tags: yes, mail: fetch + GMail + bi-directional tag + Fast email-fetching and two-way tag synchronization between notmuch and GMail written using GMail API and Notmuch Python + @@ -109,13 +116,21 @@ Other links of interest: ## **Filters and mail delivery agents** +Mail delivery agent (or MDA for short) is a piece of software that performs the +final step of mail transfer: saving it into user's mailbox. +This is invoked either by SMTP server (MTA), mail fetcher, or chained from +other delivery agent to perform such tasks as mail filtering, saving to +different folders, or forwarding to different addresses. + +Following software can deliver to Maildir mailboxes: + * [procmail](http://www.procmail.org/) * Courier (or standalone): [maildrop](http://www.courier-mta.org/maildrop/) * Dovecot: [dovecot-lda](http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA) * Postfix: [local](http://www.postfix.org/local.8.html) * Exim: [appendfile](http://exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch-the_appendfile_transport.html#SECTmaildirdelivery) * Qmail: [qmail-local](http://qmail.org/man/man8/qmail-local.html) -* OpenSMTPD: supports tuning via [.forward](https://www.opensmtpd.org/forward.5.html) files +* OpenSMTPD: supports tuning via [.forward](https://man.openbsd.org/forward) files Many MDAs also support filtering via [Sieve](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve_%28mail_filtering_language%29) language. @@ -123,31 +138,31 @@ Many MDAs also support filtering via [Sieve](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve Internet Mail Access Protocol servers that can interoperate with notmuch. It is of note that IMAP protocol supports storing so-called [keywords](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3501#page-11) (user-defined flags) which are mostly equivalent to notmuch tags. -Unfortunately Maildir does not have standard way to encode keywords, so there are extensions neccessary to store that information. +Unfortunately Maildir does not have standard way to encode keywords, so there are extensions necessary to store that information. ### **Dovecot** +[Homepage](http://dovecot.org/) | [Maildir extensions](http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir) + The fully standard-compliant IMAP server. Has efficient syncing and multimaster replication capability. -* Homepage: http://dovecot.org/ -* Maildir extensions: http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir - Up to 26 different keywords can be stored per-maildir using Maildir flags a-z. -Their meaning is defined via `dovecot-keywords` file which is simple, well-defined text file which maps each letter to specifig tag/keyword. +Their meaning is defined via `dovecot-keywords` file which is simple, well-defined text file which maps each letter to specific tag/keyword. If more than 26 keywords appear in one Maildir then some of them are stored in [dovecot-specific](http://wiki.dovecot.org/Design/Indexes/MainIndex) [index files](http://wiki.dovecot.org/IndexFiles). Dovecot's dsync will sync keywords into this format. -### **Courier** +### **Courier** -The origin of [Maildir++](http://www.courier-mta.org/imap/README.maildirquota.html) format. Ships many useful commandline tools. +[Homepage](http://www.courier-mta.org/) | [Maildir++ specification](http://www.courier-mta.org/maildir.html) | [Further Maildir++ specification](http://www.courier-mta.org/imap/README.maildirquota.html) -Further maildir specification: http://www.courier-mta.org/maildir.html +The origin of Maildir++ format which was also adopted by dovecot, among others. +Ships many useful commandline tools. It stores keywords in [courierimapkeywords](http://www.courier-mta.org/imap/README.imapkeywords.html) inside the maildir. It supports arbitrary amount of keywords, but unfortunately actually reading them is rather convoluted process. ### **Other** -* UW-IMAP supports MH folders and there is a patch for Maildir support. -* Cyrus has it's [own mailbox format](http://www.cyrusimap.org/docs/cyrus-imapd/2.5.7/internal/mailbox-format.php), but stores messages as single files which should be indexable. +* [UW-IMAP](http://www.washington.edu/imap/) supports MH folders and there is a patch for Maildir support. +* [Cyrus](http://www.cyrusimap.org/) has it's [own mailbox format](http://www.cyrusimap.org/docs/cyrus-imapd/2.5.7/internal/mailbox-format.php), but stores messages as single files which should be indexable.