On Tue May 13 2008 3:33:27 am martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.03.03.0647 +0000]: > > I believe that this should be better by now. If you are still seeing > > it, please let me know what version of OfflineIMAP you are using. > > FWIW, I am still seeing something similar to this with 5.99.13, > though arguably, it's not offlineimap's fault. A Maildir with 150k > messages takes several days to sync (using dovecot) and will make > the server's imapd process consume more than 800Mb of RAM as it maps > the index: > > (See this thread: > http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2007-August/024841.html > continued at: > http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2008-May/030688.html ) > > Could offlineimap somehow be seeded? I imagine that copying its > working database files along with the Maildir in question might > work, but given that the hostname is used in the filenames, I am not > sure this is a good approach.
Yes, if you copy .offlineimap, .offlineimaprc, and your maildirs, that ought to work fine. The hostname in the filename is mandated by the maildir spec, but is not a big deal to OfflineIMAP. Interesting dovecot discussion there. -- John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
