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Author SHA1 Message Date
Sebastian Spaeth
f5b82ad76d 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 16:09:32 +01:00
Daniel Shahaf
bf31accb78 We have a (read-only) commit mailing list
Sebastian Spaeth wrote on Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:28:19 +0100:
> Forgot to Cc the list...
>
> On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 08:17:44 +0200, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> > Sebastian Spaeth wrote on Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 01:02:22 +0100:
> >> http://docs.offlineimap.org
> >
> > I've subscribed.  And if you tell me where the sources for docs.o.o are,
> > I'll send a patch for them, too. :-)
>
> They are autogenerated from docs/dev-docs-src, and
> docs/[INSTALL|MANUAL|FAQ].rst respectively. Patches are welcome...
>
> Sebastian

From 84fcb9fa5de9eb2f95d588a7403d9c6d13f0c7f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:53:13 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Document the commits@ list

Mention the commits@ list in SubmittingPatches.rst.

Mention SubmittingPatches.rst in the API part of the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>
2012-01-20 00:42:58 +01:00
Sebastian Spaeth
c1625aa719 DOCS: Tweak SSL FAQ a bit more
Cleanup the previously added information.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
2012-01-19 10:15:04 +01:00
Sebastian Spaeth
2c19a63b9d DOCS: Add SSL debugging info to FAQ
Take the debugging instructions by Daniel Shahaf and add them to the
FAQ.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
2012-01-19 10:08:31 +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
f88f8cf984 offlineimap.conf wording tweaks
Clarify and improve wording in minor ways.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
2012-01-07 18:03:21 +01:00
Nicolas Sebrecht
b85f36e520 doc: add link to the web page of autogenerated API
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
2012-01-07 16:53:49 +01:00
Sebastian Spaeth
5240d3f367 docs/INSTALL: How to uninstall
Add a blurb on how to uninstall system wide installations.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
2012-01-06 19:51:58 +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
bfbd378025 Add FAQ item on "Mailbox already exists" error
IMAP servers treating folder names as case insensitive can lead to that
error.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
2011-11-02 15:56:33 +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
Sebastian Spaeth
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
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
Vladimir Marek
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
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
Nicolas Sebrecht
146b2abb6b Merge branch 'ns/testing-offlineimap' into next 2011-05-09 19:52:44 +02:00
Nicolas Sebrecht
bdeaebbb7d Merge branch 'ns/working-with-git' into next 2011-05-09 19:52:39 +02:00
Daniel Shahaf
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
Nicolas Sebrecht
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
Nicolas Sebrecht
9a9379f8f3 add documentation about Git
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
2011-05-08 17:17:07 +02:00
Nicolas Sebrecht
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
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
Nicolas Sebrecht
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
Sebastian Spaeth
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
Sebastian Spaeth
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
Daniel Shahaf
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
Nicolas Sebrecht
b1a570d393 Merge branch 'ns/fix-documentation-build' into next 2011-03-10 19:24:17 +01:00
Nicolas Sebrecht
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
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
94459f9454 Merge branch 'ns/fix-make-docs' into next
Conflicts:
	Changelog.draft.rst
2011-02-17 19:14:20 +01:00
Sebastian Spaeth1
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
Nicolas Sebrecht
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
Nicolas Sebrecht
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
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
John Goerzen
d839be3c61 Step 2 of SVN to arch tree conversion 2005-04-16 20:33:35 +01:00