Daily Notes for 2024-1-13

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offlineimap ๐Ÿ”—

I put it back. mutt’s faster from a local Maildir even with all the caching turned on when it uses IMAP.

Here’s a systemd unit for it that can go in ~/.config/systemd/user/offlineimap.service :

[Unit]
Description=Offlineimap Service for account %i
Documentation=man:offlineimap(1)

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/offlineimap -a %i -u basic
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=60

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

systemctl --user enable offlineimapx.service and that’s all.

neomutt ๐Ÿ”—

I read that you can pretty much just remove mutt and install neomutt and stuff will “just work,” but that has not been my experience. There are a few errors due to the way I’ve set up some multi-character macros, but that’s a documented thing with a workaround.

The main weirdness I can’t figure out is that