Documentation

FAQ

Frequently Ask Questions

Table of content

• FAQ
• Table of content
• Learning with us
• OfflineIMAP
  • Starting
  • Man pages
  • Make backups of a mailbox
  • OfflineIMAP advanced
  • User contributions
• Contributors
  • Users
  • Testers
  • Developers
    • Available APIs
  • Maintainers
• Changelogs

Learning with us

• Be effective, a 2 minutes guide for hours of time saved (the starting point for everybody new to OfflineIMAP).

OfflineIMAP

Starting

• There are good tutorials on the web:
  • How to use offlineimap on Fedora
  • https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/OfflineIMAP
• Installation
• Quick Start
• offlineimap.conf
• Configuration Examples

Man pages

• offlineimap(1)
• offlineimapui(7)

Make backups of a mailbox

• How to make backups properly
• Restore a backup

OfflineIMAP advanced

• Folder filtering and nametrans
• Some real use cases
• Configuration factorization
• Tips and Tricks

User contributions

The source files of the contributions are locally available in ./contrib or online, here.

• Integrate with systemd

Contributors

Users

• git bisect, how to find the offending patch

• Update the website
• How to contribute the wiki

Testers

• Testing offlineimap

Developers

• Developer’s Certificate of Origin (important)
• Coding guidelines
• Git Advanced

Available APIs

• v7.0.14
• v7.1.5
• v7.2.4

Maintainers

• Become a maintainer
• Make a new release
• Maintain the website
• Maintain the wiki

Changelogs

• Changelog of mainline (active branch, recommended)
• Changelog of stable branch (previous branch, deprecated)