Dofiles

OSX Setup

Run the following command to install plugins and link files.

./ansible/apply_ansible
curl -sL https://git.io/fisher | source && fisher install jorgebucaran/fisher
fish -c "fisher update"

Download and install the Nord colour theme for iterm: https://github.com/arcticicestudio/nord-iterm2

OSX Email Setup

Create maildb directories e.g.

mkdir -p ~/.maildb/michaelbarton

Create offlineimaprc files

cp ~/.dotfiles/offlineimap/rc.osx ~/.offlineimaprc
ln -s ~/.dotfiles/offlineimap/offlineimap.py ~/.offlineimap.py

Check the expected openssl file exists: /usr/local/etc/openssl/cert.pem. If not see the openssl certificate section below.

Create a gmail application password in the gmail web page. Then create a corresponding keychain entry with this password:

security add-generic-password -a acct.gmail -s acct.gmail -w

Test that this password is correct by running offlineimap once. If there are any issues make sure the account name in the KeyChain App matches that used in the offlineimaprc file.

Set up launchctl to run offlineimap map automatically.

ln -s ~/.dotfiles/offlineimap/uk.me.michaelbarton.offlineimap.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents/
launchctl load -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/uk.me.michaelbarton.offlineimap.plist

Setup the mutt colour scheme section.

mkdir ~/.mutt
ln -s ~/.dotfiles/solarized/mutt-colors-solarized/mutt-colors-solarized-dark-256.muttrc ~/.mutt/colors

Copy the corresponding msmtprc file. Ensure that the password fetch command is correct in this file.

cp ~/.dotfiles/osx.rc ~/.msmtprc

OpenSSL Certificate on OSX

The offlineimap program requires that a cert.pem file is available. The location of file is configured by the offlineimaprc file. Depending on where homebrew is installed this may be in a location like $(brew --prefix)/etc/[email protected]/cert.pem.

Debugging launchctl agents

• Double check the path of the executable in the plist file points to the homebrew installed location of offline imap. If homebrew is installed to a different location this path may not be correct.
• See: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/415074/227087

Linux setup

Install common apt packages

# Add gh command line source package repo
# https://github.com/cli/cli/blob/trunk/docs/install_linux.md
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-key C99B11DEB97541F0
sudo apt-add-repository https://cli.github.com/packages
sudo apt update

xargs -a data/apt-packages sudo apt install --yes

Linux Email Setup

Copy the msmtprc file manually, since a symlink is not recognised by the program.

cp ~/.dotfiles/msmtprc ~/.msmtprc
chmod 600 ~/.msmptprc

Disable app armour for msmtp. This is required for it to be able to run the command that fetches the password from lastpass.

sudo ln -s /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.msmtp /etc/apparmor.d/disable/
sudo apparmor_parser -R /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.msmtp

Store the gmail application password as an ubuntu secret:

secret-tool store --label='Gmail application password' password gmail

Set up the systemd scripts to run offlineimap as a systemd timer.

ln -s ~/.dotfiles/offlineimap/rc.linux ~/.offlineimaprc
sudo ln -s ${HOME}/.dotfiles/systemd/user/offlineimap.service /etc/systemd/user/
sudo ln -s ${HOME}/.dotfiles/systemd/user/offlineimap.timer /etc/systemd/user/

# Checks the that the timer is valid
systemd-analyze verify /etc/systemd/user/offlineimap.timer

# Enable the service and start a first job
systemctl --user enable offlineimap.service offlineimap.timer
systemctl --user start offlineimap.timer

# Check that offlineimap worked successfully
journalctl | grep offlineimap