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[[!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]].
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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.