From 199b8257ebc8034d1cf354499ada325e767667dd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pi-Yueh Chuang Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2021 18:16:53 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] update README - moved hyperlinks to the same section - removed redundant and incorectly-formated Markdown hyperlink - added the information of offlineimap 3 Arch Linux AUR package - removed info of installing imaplib2 from its github repo: imaplib2 now has a release on PyPI. --- README.md | 14 ++++++-------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index f20b8cc..648f4ff 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -13,7 +13,9 @@ Upstream status (`next` branch): [blog]: https://www.offlineimap.org/posts.html Links: -* Official github code repository: [offlineimap] +* Official github code repository + * for Python 2: [offlineimap] + * for Python 3: [offlineimap3] * Website: [website] * Wiki: [wiki] * Blog: [blog] @@ -22,14 +24,13 @@ Links: ***"Get the emails where you need them."*** -[Official offlineimap][https://github.com/OfflineIMAP/offlineimap3]. - ## Description OfflineIMAP is software that downloads your email mailbox(es) as **local Maildirs**. OfflineIMAP will synchronize both sides via *IMAP*. + ## Why should I use OfflineIMAP? IMAP's main downside is that you have to **trust** your email provider to @@ -61,11 +62,11 @@ GNU General Public License v2. You should first check if your distribution already packages OfflineIMAP for you. Downloads releases as [tarball or zipball](https://github.com/OfflineIMAP/offlineimap3/tags). -If you are running Linux Os, you can install offlineimap with: +If you are running Linux, you can install offlineimap with: - openSUSE `zypper in offlineimap` -- Arch Linux `pacman -S offlineimap` - fedora `dnf install offlineimap` +- Arch Linux: through AUR package [offlineimap3-git](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/offlineimap3-git/) ## Feedbacks and contributions @@ -98,9 +99,6 @@ Bugs, issues and contributions can be requested to both the mailing list or the * Python v3+ * rfc6555 (required) * imaplib2 >= 3.5 - * If you encounter an error that `cannot import name 'IMAP4' from 'imaplib2'`, it means that you need to install imaplib2 from the git repository. - * First, clone https://github.com/jazzband/imaplib2.git to your local computer. - * Then, enter the directory of the repository, run `pip install .` or `pip install --user .`. * gssapi (optional), for Kerberos authentication * portalocker (optional), if you need to run offlineimap in Cygwin for Windows