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Nicolas Sebrecht
30499cf680 MANUAL: rename "KNOWN BUGS" TO "KNOWN ISSUES"
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
2015-02-13 17:32:24 +01:00
Abdo Roig-Maranges
5318af606e docs: expand documentation of the gmail labels syncing
- Suggest that this works well together with email indexing.

- Warn about modifying the labelsheader after a sync.

- In the example replace X-Gmail-Keywords by X-Keywords. I think this is
  misleading, since no email client will pick up X-Gmail-Keywords, while
  X-Keywords (the default) is recognized by some.

- add paragraph explaining special gmail labels.

Merge-request-from: Abdó Roig-Maranges
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
2015-02-10 12:35:54 +01:00
Nicolas Sebrecht
bd0461a986 MANUAL: add minor sample on how to retrieve a password with a helper python file
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
2015-01-10 12:36:18 +01:00
Nicolas Sebrecht
18bf7b7dc9 MANUAL: split long lines
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
2015-01-10 12:36:18 +01:00
Wieland Hoffmann
40226705af MANUAL: dev-doc is no more
The folder has been removed in 74b133c500

Signed-off-by: Wieland Hoffmann <themineo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
2015-01-09 01:10:44 +01:00
Abdo Roig-Maranges
6453ab0db7 Bring GMail labels section on the manual up to date
- there is no need to set SQlite backend anymore;
 - explain a bit more that some headers are recognized
   by email clients.

Signed-off-by: Eygene Ryabinkin <rea@codelabs.ru>
2014-05-11 22:38:57 +04:00
Eygene Ryabinkin
5150de5514 Add support for XDG Base Directory Specification
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/offlineimap/config will now be tried before
the canonical ~/.offlineimaprc.

Signed-off-by: Eygene Ryabinkin <rea@codelabs.ru>
2014-05-07 00:40:59 +04:00
Nathan Guerin
9eba0e5eb7 User manual: fix typo, "rebuild" -> "rebuilt"
Signed-off-by: Eygene Ryabinkin <rea@codelabs.ru>
2014-05-07 00:07:18 +04:00
Abdó Roig-Maranges
0e4afa9132 Make GmailFolder sync GMail labels
When synclabels config flag is set to "yes" for the GMail repo,
offlineimap fetches the message labels along with the messages, and
embeds them into the body under the header X-Keywords (or whatever
'labelsheader' was set to), as a comma separated list.

It also adds an extra pass to savemessageto, that performs label
synchronization on existing messages from GMail to local, the same way
it is done with flags.

We also introduce GmailMaildir repository that adds functionality to
change message labels.  It keeps track of messages modification time,
so one can quickly detect when the labels may have changed.

Signed-off-by: Eygene Ryabinkin <rea@codelabs.ru>
2014-05-06 23:36:06 +04:00
Eygene Ryabinkin
41cb0f577f Prune trailing whitespaces from code and documentation
They are redundant in all pruned cases and sometimes even create some
problems, e.g., when one tries to jump through paragraphs in vi.

Signed-off-by: Eygene Ryabinkin <rea@codelabs.ru>
2013-07-21 23:00:23 +04:00
Eygene Ryabinkin
de84c3941c Implement stack trace dump for all running threads on SIGQUIT
This is handy when we're debugging the thread locks: we can try to
understand which thread does what and how it was called.

Signed-off-by: Eygene Ryabinkin <rea@codelabs.ru>
2013-02-02 16:25:37 +04:00
Dmitrijs Ledkovs
83e8fca2e0 Make SIGHUP singal handler equivalent to SIGTERM and SIGINT.
offlineimap has several frontends that encourage running it from a
terminal under an X session. When X session closes for a system
shutdown, the terminals exit, after sending SIGHUP to their children.

Previously SIGHUP was treated to be equivalent to SIGUSR1, i.e. wake
up and sync all accounts. This causes delays during shutdown.

According to Wikipedia [0], SIGHUP has been repurposed from a
historical meaning to one of:
 * re-read configuration files, or reinitialize (e.g. Apache, sendmail)
 * controlling pseudo or virtual terminal has been closed

I believe second meaning is more appropriate for offlineimap, and
hence this patch makes SIGHUP to be handled in the same way SIGTERM
and SIGINT are handled.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGHUP

Debian-Bug: http://bugs.debian.org/670120
Reported-By: Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitrijs Ledkovs <xnox@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Eygene Ryabinkin <rea@codelabs.ru>
2013-01-26 23:05:46 +04:00
Sebastian Spaeth
74b133c500 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>
2012-02-24 11:13:27 +01:00
Sebastian Spaeth
aa01fe754a Improve command line option help text
Shuffle around and update command line option descriptions in the
docs.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
2012-02-17 13:17:05 +01:00
Sebastian Spaeth
da0ba2e266 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 16:07:33 +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