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1 # Sample configuration file
2 # Copyright (C) 2002-2005 John Goerzen
3 # <jgoerzen@complete.org>
4 #
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18
19 # Looking for a quick start? Take a look at offlineimap.conf.minimal.
20
21
22 ##################################################
23 # General definitions
24 ##################################################
25
26 [general]
27
28 # This specifies where offlineimap is to store its metadata.
29 # This directory will be created if it does not already exist.
30
31 metadata = ~/.offlineimap
32
33 # This variable specifies which accounts are defined. Separate them
34 # with commas. Account names should be alphanumeric only.
35 # You will need to specify one section per account below. You may
36 # not use "general" for an account name.
37 #
38
39 accounts = Test
40
41 # Offlineimap can synchronize more the one account at a time. If you
42 # want to enable this feature, set the below value to something
43 # greater than 1. To force it to synchronize only one account at a
44 # time, set it to 1.
45 #
46
47 maxsyncaccounts = 1
48
49 # You can specify one or more user interface modules for OfflineIMAP
50 # to use. OfflineIMAP will try the first in the list, and if it
51 # fails, the second, and so forth.
52 #
53 # The pre-defined options are:
54 # Curses.Blinkenlights -- A text-based (terminal) interface similar to
55 # Tk.Blinkenlights
56 # TTY.TTYUI -- a text-based (terminal) interface
57 # Noninteractive.Basic -- Noninteractive interface suitable for cronning
58 # Noninteractive.Quiet -- Noninteractive interface, generates no output
59 # except for errors.
60 # Machine.MachineUI -- Interactive interface suitable for machine
61 # parsing.
62 #
63 # You can override this with a command-line option -u.
64
65 ui = Curses.Blinkenlights, TTY.TTYUI,
66 Noninteractive.Basic, Noninteractive.Quiet
67
68 # If you try to synchronize messages to a read-only folder,
69 # OfflineIMAP will generate a warning. If you want to suppress these
70 # warnings, set ignore-readonly to yes. Read-only IMAP folders allow
71 # reading but not modification, so if you try to change messages in
72 # the local copy of such a folder, the IMAP server will prevent
73 # OfflineIMAP from propogating those changes to the IMAP server.
74
75 ignore-readonly = no
76
77 ########## Advanced settings
78
79 # You can give a Python source filename here and all config file
80 # python snippets will be evaluated in the context of that file.
81 # This allows you to e.g. define helper functions in the Python
82 # source file and call them from this config file. You can find
83 # an example of this in the manual.
84 #
85 # pythonfile = ~/.offlineimap.py
86 #
87
88 # By default, OfflineIMAP will not exit due to a network error until
89 # the operating system returns an error code. Operating systems can sometimes
90 # take forever to notice this. Here you can activate a timeout on the
91 # socket. This timeout applies to individual socket reads and writes,
92 # not to an overall sync operation. You could perfectly well have a 30s
93 # timeout here and your sync still take minutes.
94 #
95 # Values in the 30-120 second range are reasonable.
96 #
97 # The default is to have no timeout beyond the OS. Times are given in seconds.
98 #
99 # socktimeout = 60
100
101 ##################################################
102 # Mailbox name recorder
103 ##################################################
104
105 [mbnames]
106
107 # offlineimap can record your mailbox names in a format you specify.
108 # You can define the header, each mailbox item, the separator,
109 # and the footer. Here is an example for Mutt.
110 # If enabled is yes, all six setting must be specified, even if they
111 # are just the empty string "".
112 #
113 # The header, peritem, sep, and footer are all Python expressions passed
114 # through eval, so you can (and must) use Python quoting.
115
116 enabled = no
117 filename = ~/Mutt/muttrc.mailboxes
118 header = "mailboxes "
119 peritem = "+%(accountname)s/%(foldername)s"
120 sep = " "
121 footer = "\n"
122
123 # You can also specify a folderfilter. It will apply to the
124 # *translated* folder name here, and it takes TWO arguments:
125 # accountname and foldername. In all other ways, it will
126 # behave identically to the folderfilter for accounts. Please see
127 # that section for more information and examples.
128 #
129 # Note that this filter can be used only to further restrict mbnames
130 # to a subset of folders that pass the account's folderfilter.
131
132 [ui.Curses.Blinkenlights]
133 # Character used to indicate thread status.
134
135 statuschar = .
136
137 ##################################################
138 # Accounts
139 ##################################################
140
141 # This is an account definition clause. You'll have one of these
142 # for each account listed in general/accounts above.
143
144 [Account Test]
145 ########## Basic settings
146
147 # These settings specify the two folders that you will be syncing.
148 # You'll need to have a "Repository ..." section for each one.
149
150 localrepository = LocalExample
151 remoterepository = RemoteExample
152
153 ########## Advanced settings
154
155 # You can have offlineimap continue running indefinately, automatically
156 # syncing your mail periodically. If you want that, specify how
157 # frequently to do that (in minutes) here. You can also specify
158 # fractional minutes (ie, 3.25).
159
160 # autorefresh = 5
161
162 # You can tell offlineimap to do a number of quicker synchronizations
163 # between full updates. A quick synchronization only synchronizes
164 # if a Maildir folder has changed, or if an IMAP folder has received
165 # new messages or had messages deleted. It does not update if the
166 # only changes were to IMAP flags. Specify 0 to never do quick updates,
167 # -1 to always do quick updates, or a positive integer to do that many
168 # quick updates between each full synchronization (requires autorefresh).
169
170 # quick = 10
171
172 [Repository LocalExample]
173
174 # This is one of the two repositories that you'll work with given the
175 # above example. Each repository requires a "type" declaration.
176 #
177 # The types supported are Maildir and IMAP.
178 #
179
180 type = Maildir
181
182 # Specify local repository. Your IMAP folders will be synchronized
183 # to maildirs created under this path. OfflineIMAP will create the
184 # maildirs for you as needed.
185
186 localfolders = ~/Test
187
188 # You can specify the "path separator character" used for your Maildir
189 # folders. This is inserted in-between the components of the tree.
190 # It defaults to ".". If you want your Maildir folders to be nested,
191 # set it to "/".
192
193 sep = .
194
195 # Some users on *nix platforms may not want the atime (last access
196 # time) to be modified by OfflineIMAP. In these cases, they would
197 # want to set restoreatime to yes. OfflineIMAP will make an effort
198 # to not touch the atime if you do that.
199 #
200 # In most cases, the default of no should be sufficient.
201
202 restoreatime = no
203
204 [Repository RemoteExample]
205
206 # And this is the remote repository. We only support IMAP or Gmail here.
207
208 type = IMAP
209
210 # The following can fetch the account credentials via a python expression that
211 # is parsed from the pythonfile parameter. For example, a function called
212 # "getcredentials" that parses a file "filename" and returns the account
213 # details for "hostname".
214 # remotehosteval = getcredentials("filename", "hostname", "hostname")
215 # remoteusereval = getcredentials("filename", "hostname", "user")
216 # remotepasseval = getcredentials("filename", "hostname", "passwd")
217
218 # Specify the remote hostname.
219 remotehost = examplehost
220
221 # Whether or not to use SSL.
222 ssl = yes
223
224 # Specify the port. If not specified, use a default port.
225 # remoteport = 993
226
227 # Specify the remote user name.
228 remoteuser = username
229
230 # There are four ways to specify the password for the remote IMAP
231 # server:
232 #
233 # 1. No password at all specified in the config file. If a matching
234 # entry is found in ~/.netrc (see netrc (5) for information) the
235 # password from the matching entry will be used. Otherwise you
236 # will be prompted for the password when OfflineIMAP starts.
237 #
238 # 2. The remote password stored in this file with the remotepass
239 # option. Example:
240 #
241 # remotepass = mypassword
242 #
243 # 3. The remote password stored as a single line in an external
244 # file, which is referenced by the remotefile option. Example:
245 #
246 # remotepassfile = ~/Password.IMAP.Account1
247 #
248 # 4. With a preauth tunnel. With this method, you invoke an external
249 # program that is guaranteed *NOT* to ask for a password, but rather
250 # to read from stdin and write to stdout an IMAP procotol stream
251 # that begins life in the PREAUTH state. When you use a tunnel,
252 # you do NOT specify a user or password (if you do, they'll be
253 # ignored.) Instead, you specify a preauthtunnel, as this
254 # example illustrates for Courier IMAP on Debian:
255 #
256 # preauthtunnel = ssh -q imaphost '/usr/bin/imapd ./Maildir'
257 #
258
259 ########## Advanced settings
260
261 # Some IMAP servers need a "reference" which often refers to the
262 # "folder root". This is most commonly needed with UW IMAP, where
263 # you might need to specify the directory in which your mail is
264 # stored. Most users will not need this.
265 #
266 # reference = Mail
267
268 # OfflineIMAP can use multiple connections to the server in order
269 # to perform multiple synchronization actions simultaneously.
270 # This may place a higher burden on the server. In most cases,
271 # setting this value to 2 or 3 will speed up the sync, but in some
272 # cases, it may slow things down. The safe answer is 1. You should
273 # probably never set it to a value more than 5.
274
275 maxconnections = 1
276
277 # OfflineIMAP normally closes IMAP server connections between refreshes if
278 # the global option autorefresh is specified. If you wish it to keep the
279 # connection open, set this to true. If not specified, the default is
280 # false. Keeping the connection open means a faster sync start the
281 # next time and may use fewer server resources on connection, but uses
282 # more server memory. This setting has no effect if autorefresh is not set.
283
284 holdconnectionopen = no
285
286 # If you want to have "keepalives" sent while waiting between syncs,
287 # specify the amount of time IN SECONDS between keepalives here. Note that
288 # sometimes more than this amount of time might pass, so don't make it
289 # tight. This setting has no effect if autorefresh and holdconnectionopen
290 # are not both set.
291
292 # keepalive = 60
293
294 # Normally, OfflineIMAP will expunge deleted messages from the server.
295 # You can disable that if you wish. This means that OfflineIMAP will
296 # mark them deleted on the server, but not actually delete them.
297 # You must use some other IMAP client to delete them if you use this
298 # setting; otherwise, the messgaes will just pile up there forever.
299 # Therefore, this setting is definately NOT recommended.
300 #
301 # expunge = no
302 # You can specify a folder translator. This must be a eval-able
303 # Python expression that takes a foldername arg and returns the new
304 # value. I suggest a lambda. This example below will remove "INBOX." from
305 # the leading edge of folders (great for Courier IMAP users)
306 #
307 # WARNING: you MUST construct this such that it NEVER returns
308 # the same value for two folders, UNLESS the second values are
309 # filtered out by folderfilter below. Failure to follow this rule
310 # will result in undefined behavior
311 #
312 # nametrans = lambda foldername: re.sub('^INBOX\.', '', foldername)
313
314 # Using Courier remotely and want to duplicate its mailbox naming
315 # locally? Try this:
316 #
317 # nametrans = lambda foldername: re.sub('^INBOX\.*', '.', foldername)
318
319 # You can specify which folders to sync. You can do it several ways.
320 # I'll provide some examples. The folderfilter operates on the
321 # *UNTRANSLATED* name, if you specify nametrans. It should return
322 # true if the folder is to be included; false otherwise.
323 #
324 # Example 1: synchronizing only INBOX and Sent.
325 #
326 # folderfilter = lambda foldername: foldername in ['INBOX', 'Sent']
327 #
328 # Example 2: synchronizing everything except Trash.
329 #
330 # folderfilter = lambda foldername: foldername not in ['Trash']
331 #
332 # Example 3: Using a regular expression to exclude Trash and all folders
333 # containing the characters "Del".
334 #
335 # folderfilter = lambda foldername: not re.search('(^Trash$|Del)', foldername)
336 #
337 # If folderfilter is not specified, ALL remote folders will be
338 # synchronized.
339 #
340 # You can span multiple lines by indenting the others. (Use backslashes
341 # at the end when required by Python syntax) For instance:
342 #
343 # folderfilter = lambda foldername: foldername in
344 # ['INBOX', 'Sent Mail', 'Deleted Items',
345 # 'Received']
346 #
347 # FYI, you could also include every folder with:
348 #
349 # folderfilter = lambda foldername: 1
350 #
351 # And exclude every folder with:
352 #
353 # folderfilter = lambda foldername: 0
354
355 # You can specify folderincludes to include additional folders.
356 # It should return a Python list. This might be used to include a
357 # folder that was excluded by your folderfilter rule, to include a
358 # folder that your server does not specify with its LIST option, or
359 # to include a folder that is outside your basic reference. Some examples:
360 #
361 # To include debian.user and debian.personal:
362 #
363 # folderincludes = ['debian.user', 'debian.personal']
364 #
365 # To include your INBOX (UW IMAPd users will find this useful if they
366 # specify a reference):
367 #
368 # folderincludes = ['INBOX']
369 #
370 # To specify a long list:
371 #
372 # folderincludes = ['box1', 'box2', 'box3', 'box4',
373 # 'box5', 'box6']
374
375 # You can specify foldersort to determine how folders are sorted.
376 # This affects order of synchronization and mbnames. The expression
377 # should return -1, 0, or 1, as the default Python cmp() does. The
378 # two arguments, x and y, are strings representing the names of the folders
379 # to be sorted. The sorting is applied *AFTER* nametrans, if any.
380 #
381 # To reverse the sort:
382 #
383 # foldersort = lambda x, y: -cmp(x, y)
384
385
386 [Repository GmailExample]
387
388 # A repository using Gmail's IMAP interface. Any configuration
389 # parameter of `IMAP` type repositories can be used here. Only
390 # `remoteuser` (or `remoteusereval` ) is mandatory. Default values
391 # for other parameters are OK, and you should not need fiddle with
392 # those.
393 #
394 # The Gmail repository will use hard-coded values for `remotehost`,
395 # `remoteport`, `tunnel` and `ssl`. (See
396 # http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78799&topic=12814)
397 # Any attempt to set those parameters will be silently ignored.
398 #
399
400 type = Gmail
401
402 # Specify the Gmail user name. This is the only mandatory parameter.
403 remoteuser = username@gmail.com
404
405 # Deleting a message from a Gmail folder via the IMAP interface will
406 # just remove that folder's label from the message: the message will
407 # continue to exist in the '[Gmail]/All Mail' folder. If `realdelete`
408 # is set to `True`, then deleted messages will really be deleted
409 # during `offlineimap` sync, by moving them to the '[Gmail]/Trash'
410 # folder. BEWARE: this will deleted a messages from *all folders* it
411 # belongs to!
412 #
413 # See http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=77657&topic=12815
414 realdelete = no