Rafael Avila de Espindola writes on mars 27, 2017 4:32: > I currently have a mbsync + notmuch setup and I am just about to give > this a try. > > One question is what the notmuch setup should look like. I assume I > should create a new config file pointing to the directory where the > emails will be written to. Do I have to run notmuch setup to create the > db? > Yes, it is a good idea to just back up your entire notmuch db and set up a new one to test gmailieer with. gmailieer respects $NOTMUCH_CONFIG and reads it to figure out which 'new' tags to add (no need to use inbox or unread here, that will only create confusion - I only use 'new' to do tagging). Assuming you want to set up a separate notmuch database to test you do the following: first: get a client secret API key for gmailieer [0], you only need this during setup or if gmailieer needs to be re-authenticated. so store it somewhere safe, say: ~/.secret/client_secret.json. ideally this should be unnecessary [1]. # setting up a separate notmuch db $ mkdir ~/test_mail/ # our new mail root $ cd ~/test_mail $ export NOTMUCH_CONFIG=$(pwd)/.notmuch-config $ mkdir mail # new mail database root $ notmuch setup * specify ~/test_mail/mail as mail database * specify only 'new' as new tag $ notmuch new # create db $ cd mail NOTE: As long as you are using a non-standard notmuch config location make sure that environment variable is set when using gmailieer. # setting up gmailieer $ mkdir gmail * this will be the gmailieer local repository. * it should be a sub-dir of the root mail db. * you can keep other mail (from other accounts) outside this gmailieer local repository. $ cd gmail $ gmi auth -c ~/.secret/client_secret.json * authenticate gmailieer, choose the correct account, say: charlie.root@gmail.com $ gmi init -a charlie.root@gmail.com # gmailieer should now be set up $ gmi pull # does the initial pull, fetching all you messages - this # could take some time. When you want to synchronize your account you do: $ gmi sync # which effectively does gmi push; gmi pull this will also update the notmuch database so it should not be necessary to run 'notmuch new' afterwards. Regards, Gaute [0] https://console.developers.google.com/flows/enableapi?apiid=gmail [1] https://github.com/gauteh/gmailieer/issues/1