Re: [Opensync-users] mailsync questions/request

[Armin B. <arm...@de...>]

David Ronis wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I've been using mailsync-5.2.1 to keep my mail folders on my laptop and
> desktop in sync.  It's been working perfectly and plays an important
> role in my work.  Unfortunately, I've had to switch to evolution as my
> mail client (I used vm under emacs before) and have had trouble keeping
> things in sync.  From what I can tell, evolution uses a standard unix
> mailbox format and mailsync DOES sync the files properly; the problem is
> that various index files under evolution aren't synced which causes
> evolution to complain when it's run (e.g., it says it can't save the
> mail folder even "after a sync", whatever that means).
> 
> I've found that running a program called multisync (from opensync)
> somehow restores the indices, even though it DOESN'T sync the mail
> folders.
> 
> Any idea what/how to rebuild evolution's indices (if indeed that is the
> problem); 2) if so, could this be automated into mailsync?  3) Any
> chance of you building an opensync mailsync plugin?
> 

1) I dont know what multisync would do that it rebuilds the indices. We
are just calling the evolution API and are not doing anything fancy or
special.

2) see 1)

3) this is definitely on the roadmap for the future. But i cannot make
an promises when this will be implement. Help is appreciated :)

> Finally, on an different topic, a feature request.  My mail files are
> huge and I compress them with bzip2.  Any chance that you could add
> compressed read/write support into mailsync?
> 

it is definitely possible to write such a plugin. But i dont know how
many people would really need such a plugin. But if you want to try to
implement it, i am glad to help!

> Thanks in advance.
> 
> David
> 
> 
> 
> 
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