Revamped documentation structure and some doc fixes

`make` in the `docs` dir or `make doc` in the root dir will now
create the 1) man page and 2) the user documentation using sphinx
(requiring python-doctools, and sphinx).

The resulting user docs are in `docs/html`. You can also
only create the man pages with `make man` in the `docs` dir.

Also fixed all .rst conversion errors as requested by Gentoo downstream.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
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API
===
API is documented in the dev-doc-src directory using the sphinx tools (also used
for python itself). This is a WIP. Contributions in this area would be very
The API is documented in the user documentation in the docs/ directory and browsable at `<http://docs.offlineimap.org>`_. This is a WIP. Contributions in this area would be very
appreciated.

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OfflineIMAP Manual
====================
.. _OfflineIMAP: http://offlineimap.org
--------------------------------------------------------
Powerful IMAP/Maildir synchronization and reader support
--------------------------------------------------------
:Author: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> & contributors
:Date: 2011-01-15
:Copyright: GPL v2
:Manual section: 1
.. TODO: :Manual group:
:Date: 2012-02-23
DESCRIPTION
===========
@ -45,7 +42,7 @@ OfflineImap is well suited to be frequently invoked by cron jobs, or can run in
The documentation is included in the git repository and can be created by
issueing `make dev-doc` in the `doc` folder (python-sphinx required), or it can
be viewed online at `http://docs.offlineimap.org`_.
be viewed online at http://docs.offlineimap.org.
.. _configuration:
@ -72,7 +69,7 @@ OPTIONS
The command line options are described by issueing `offlineimap --help`.
Details on their use can be found either in the sample offlineimap.conf file or
in the user docs at `http://docs.offlineimap.org`_.
in the user docs at http://docs.offlineimap.org.
User Interfaces
===============
@ -306,6 +303,8 @@ as Man-In-The-Middle attacks which cause you to connect to the wrong
server and pretend to be your mail server. DO NOT RELY ON STARTTLS AS A
SAFE CONNECTION GUARANTEEING THE AUTHENTICITY OF YOUR IMAP SERVER!
.. _UNIX signals:
UNIX Signals
============
@ -445,7 +444,7 @@ and Sent which should keep the same name::
Synchronizing 2 IMAP accounts to local Maildirs that are "next to each
other", so that mutt can work on both. Full email setup described by
Thomas Kahle at `http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/mail.html`_
Thomas Kahle at `<http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/mail.html>`_
offlineimap.conf::
@ -507,7 +506,7 @@ purposes: Fetching passwords from the gnome-keyring and translating
folder names on the server to local foldernames. An example
implementation of get_username and get_password showing how to query
gnome-keyring is contained in
`http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/mail-setup.tar.bz2`_ The folderfilter is
`<http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/mail-setup.tar.bz2>`_ The folderfilter is
a lambda term that, well, filters which folders to get. The function
`oimaptransfolder_acc2` translates remote folders into local folders
with a very simple logic. The `INBOX` folder will have the same name

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RST2MAN=`type rst2man >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo rst2man || echo rst2man.py`
SPHINXBUILD = sphinx-build
all: html dev-doc
all: man doc
html: $(HTML_TARGETS)
@ -22,12 +22,12 @@ offlineimap.1: MANUAL.rst
$(RST2MAN) MANUAL.rst offlineimap.1
cp -f offlineimap.1 ..
dev-doc:
$(SPHINXBUILD) -b html -d dev-doc/doctrees dev-doc-src dev-doc/html
doc:
$(SPHINXBUILD) -b html -d html/doctrees doc-src html
clean:
$(RM) -f $(HTML_TARGETS)
$(RM) -f offlineimap.1 ../offlineimap.1
$(RM) -rf dev-doc/*
$(RM) -rf html/*
.PHONY: dev-doc
.PHONY: clean doc

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../FAQ.rst

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Can I force OfflineIMAP to sync a folder right now?
---------------------------------------------------
Yes,
1) if you use the `Blinkenlights` UI. That UI shows the active accounts
as follows::
Yes:
1) if you use the `Blinkenlights` UI. That UI shows the active
accounts as follows::
4: [active] *Control: .
3: [ 4:36] personal:
@ -216,8 +217,9 @@ as follows::
resync that account immediately. This will be ignored if a resync is
already in progress for that account.
2) while in sleep mode, you can also send a SIGUSR1. See the `Signals
on UNIX`_ section in the MANUAL for details.
2) while in sleep mode, you can also send a SIGUSR1. See the :ref:`UNIX
signals` section in the MANUAL for details.
I get a "Mailbox already exists" error
--------------------------------------
@ -291,14 +293,17 @@ certificates chain) in PEM format. (See the documentation of
`ssl.wrap_socket`_'s `certfile` parameter for the gory details.) You can use either openssl or gnutls to create a certificate file in the required format.
#. via openssl::
openssl s_client -CApath /etc/ssl/certs -connect ${hostname}:imaps -showcerts \
| perl -ne 'print if /BEGIN/../END/; print STDERR if /return/' > $sslcacertfile
^D
#. via gnutls::
gnutls-cli --print-cert -p imaps ${host} </dev/null | sed -n \
| '/^-----BEGIN CERT/,/^-----END CERT/p' > $sslcacertfile
The path `/etc/ssl/certs` is not standardized; your system may store
SSL certificates elsewhere. (On some systems it may be in
`/usr/local/share/certs/`.)

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Description
===========
OfflineIMAP is a tool to simplify your e-mail reading. With OfflineIMAP, you can
read the same mailbox from multiple computers. You get a current copy of your
messages on each computer, and changes you make one place will be visible on all
other systems. For instance, you can delete a message on your home computer, and
it will appear deleted on your work computer as well. OfflineIMAP is also useful
if you want to use a mail reader that does not have IMAP support, has poor IMAP
support, or does not provide disconnected operation.
OfflineIMAP works on pretty much any POSIX operating system, such as Linux, BSD
operating systems, MacOS X, Solaris, etc.
OfflineIMAP is a Free Software project licensed under the GNU General Public
License. You can download it for free, and you can modify it. In fact, you are
encouraged to contribute to OfflineIMAP, and doing so is fast and easy.
OfflineIMAP is FAST; it synchronizes my two accounts with over 50 folders in 3
seconds. Other similar tools might take over a minute, and achieve a
less-reliable result. Some mail readers can take over 10 minutes to do the same
thing, and some don't even support it at all. Unlike other mail tools,
OfflineIMAP features a multi-threaded synchronization algorithm that can
dramatically speed up performance in many situations by synchronizing several
different things simultaneously.
OfflineIMAP is FLEXIBLE; you can customize which folders are synced via regular
expressions, lists, or Python expressions; a versatile and comprehensive
configuration file is used to control behavior; two user interfaces are
built-in; fine-tuning of synchronization performance is possible; internal or
external automation is supported; SSL and PREAUTH tunnels are both supported;
offline (or "unplugged") reading is supported; and esoteric IMAP features are
supported to ensure compatibility with the widest variety of IMAP servers.
OfflineIMAP is SAFE; it uses an algorithm designed to prevent mail loss at all
costs. Because of the design of this algorithm, even programming errors should
not result in loss of mail. I am so confident in the algorithm that I use my
own personal and work accounts for testing of OfflineIMAP pre-release,
development, and beta releases. Of course, legally speaking, OfflineIMAP comes
with no warranty, so I am not responsible if this turns out to be wrong.
.. note: OfflineImap was written by John Goerzen, who retired from
maintaining. It is now maintained by Nicolas Sebrecht & Sebastian
Spaeth at https://github.com/spaetz/offlineimap. Thanks to John
for his great job and to have share this project with us.
Method of Operation
===================
OfflineIMAP traditionally operates by maintaining a hierarchy of mail folders in
Maildir format locally. Your own mail reader will read mail from this tree, and
need never know that the mail comes from IMAP. OfflineIMAP will detect changes
to the mail folders on your IMAP server and your own computer and
bi-directionally synchronize them, copying, marking, and deleting messages as
necessary.
With OfflineIMAP 4.0, a powerful new ability has been introduced ― the program
can now synchronize two IMAP servers with each other, with no need to have a
Maildir layer in-between. Many people use this if they use a mail reader on
their local machine that does not support Maildirs. People may install an IMAP
server on their local machine, and point both OfflineIMAP and their mail reader
of choice at it. This is often preferable to the mail reader's own IMAP support
since OfflineIMAP supports many features (offline reading, for one) that most
IMAP-aware readers don't. However, this feature is not as time-tested as
traditional syncing, so my advice is to stick with normal methods of operation
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More information on specific topics can be found on the following pages:
**User documentation**
* :doc:`Overview and features <features>`
* :doc:`installation/uninstall <INSTALL>`
* :doc:`user manual/Configuration <MANUAL>`
* :doc:`Folder filtering & name transformation guide <nametrans>`
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.. toctree::
:hidden:
features
INSTALL
MANUAL
nametrans

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Usually it suffices to put a `folderfilter`_ setting in the remote repository section. You might want to put a folderfilter option on the local repository if you want to prevent some folders on the local repository to be created on the remote one. (Even in this case, folder filters on the remote repository will prevent that)
folderincludes
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
--------------
You can specify `folderincludes`_ to manually include additional folders to be synced, even if they had been filtered out by a folderfilter setting. `folderincludes`_ should return a Python list.
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this rule will result in undefined behavior. See also *Sharing a
maildir with multiple IMAP servers* in the :ref:`pitfalls` section.
Reverse nametrans
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+++++++++++++++++
Since 6.4.0, OfflineImap supports the creation of folders on the remote repository and that complicates things. Previously, only one nametrans setting on the remote repository was needed and that transformed a remote to a local name. However, nametrans transformations are one-way, and OfflineImap has no way using those rules on the remote repository to back local names to remote names.
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Maildir using the default folder separator '.' which do I need to use
in nametrans rules?::
nametrans = lambda f: "INBOX/" + f
or::
nametrans = lambda f: "INBOX." + f
nametrans = lambda f: "INBOX/" + f
or::
nametrans = lambda f: "INBOX." + f
**A:** Generally use the folder separator as defined in the repository
you write the nametrans rule for. That is, use '/' in the above