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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
8cce178fb8 Improve developer documentation
Well, this patch... improves it. :)

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
2011-08-30 22:19:16 +02:00
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
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
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
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
9d5f805981 FAQ: add commant about UID not found on saved messages
This add missing doc as requested on the mailing list for commit d5cbdc4c0e.
Also, add an entry in the changelog.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Marek <vlmarek@volny.cz>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
2011-08-01 19:19:15 +02:00
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
7fe5e14611 Merge branch 'vm/windows-maildir' into next
Conflicts:
	docs/MANUAL.rst
2011-07-12 21:59:10 +02:00
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
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
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
146b2abb6b Merge branch 'ns/testing-offlineimap' into next 2011-05-09 19:52:44 +02:00
bdeaebbb7d Merge branch 'ns/working-with-git' into next 2011-05-09 19:52:39 +02:00
632f1fe61f FAQ: add two entries concerning 'sslcacertfile'
Add a FAQ entry about non-verifying SSL certificates by default,
and another about how to generate a certificates file to feed to
the 'sslcacertfile' repository configuration item.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
2011-05-09 19:36:18 +02:00
8465c832c3 FAQ: insert entry to explain how to test OfflineIMAP
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
2011-05-08 18:42:30 +02:00
9a9379f8f3 add documentation about Git
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
2011-05-08 17:17:07 +02:00
e7439b5d77 doc: introduce a new HACKING file
This aims to help newcomers to be very fast to involve into the project.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
2011-05-08 17:17:07 +02:00
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
01b390bb71 INSTALL: explain how to install offlineimap using git
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
2011-05-04 19:03:35 +02:00
6add201436 Improve the developer API documentation
Improve the code documentation (still much more to do) and also add some
more meat to the structure of the developer documentation.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
2011-05-02 20:16:45 +02:00
fa0b1ef8ee Add beginnings of sphinx-based code documentation
The docs still need some meat, but the infrastructure is in place. THis
allows us to generate the nice looking API documentation that many
python projects already have. We should document our API better, providing
an overview of the functionality available.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
2011-04-27 18:57:41 +02:00
f584d6fee6 Document a feature in the FAQ
Add a FAQ entry for the Blinkenlight UI's 'Force an immediate resync' feature.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
2011-04-03 13:21:07 +02:00
b1a570d393 Merge branch 'ns/fix-documentation-build' into next 2011-03-10 19:24:17 +01:00
b18bde70c9 doc: rst2xxx: fix ignoring output while determining the command name
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
2011-03-07 22:27:35 +01:00
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
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
94459f9454 Merge branch 'ns/fix-make-docs' into next
Conflicts:
	Changelog.draft.rst
2011-02-17 19:14:20 +01:00
8678c0d718 Fix broken grammar in FAQ file
The sentence in the FAQ did not make any sense, so this fixes that.
Closes http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=585140

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
2011-02-17 19:09:16 +01:00
9482a37533 fix documentation build
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:09:16PM +0100, Sebastian Spaeth wrote:

> still a bug in make docs that I only discovered today.
>
> our Makefile contains
>
> type rst2html 2>/dev/null && echo rst2html || echo rst2html.py
>
> which outputs on my box:
>
> rst2html is /usr/bin/rst2html
> rst2html
>
> which will break things. So either we need to suppres STDOUT too:
>
> type rst2html >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo rst2html || echo rst2html.py
>
> (which works), or we could use `which rst2html` (which returns 0 if the
> command exists) and outputs the proper path.

Reported-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
2011-02-17 18:57:15 +01:00
c8b8e26735 Makefile: fix docutils commands call if extension is stripped
Looks like some distribution strip the extensions of the python commands and
some don't. Try to find the correct commands by ourself.

Reported-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
2011-01-28 19:39:19 +01:00
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
d839be3c61 Step 2 of SVN to arch tree conversion 2005-04-16 20:33:35 +01:00