Re: IMAP pull-and-delete operation

[Oswald B. <osw...@gm...>]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2025 at 08:31:55AM +0000, syn...@da... wrote:
>On Fri, Oct 31, 2025 at 12:15:55PM +0100, Oswald Buddenhagen via isync-devel wrote:
>>shoehorning isync into doing something it was not designed for
>
>What is so extreme about what I am doing?
>
isync's purpose is to keep both sides in sync. MaxMessages is a 
deviation from that. when you push that number down to zero, that's 
_literally_ extreme, and you've gone from syncing to fetching.

>Why is this such a difficult task for isync?
>
because MaxMessage doesn't really fit the basic scheme, its 
implementation actually comes at a rather significant cost in 
complexity; it's easily the most difficult part of the whole codebase.
i don't know if it would be difficult to make it support zero; it might 
just work with a few minor changes. patches (with autotests) welcome.