On 4 Sep 2001, Brian May wrote: > MAILSYNC > > PROS: > - supports bidirectional transfer of messages. > > - can delete deleted messages (not tested). >
I can confirm this works. > - can create and delete folders (not tested). > And this. > - could potentially support other services too, such as NNTP (doesn't > work, see bug report). However, I imagine the slow down (see cons) > would be large, as NNTP groups can be very large. > Thanks to c-client also POP2, POP3, NNTP, and FTP and 'shared' (public) mailboxes. NNTP failing seems to be a bug in mailsync itself. > CONS: > > - upstream author seems to be really anti-maildir, although maildir > patches have been included in Debian version. > As Tomas pointed out, it is the c-client author who is anti-maildir. I've added a patch for maildirs but currently it is not working perfectly. Miquel Van Smoorenburg said he was working on a better one. > - needs to retrieve the message-id of *every* message, which really > slows the process down, especially on slow Internet link and/or if > folder has lots of messages. > > - synchronisation of message flags doesn't work the way I would > expect (bug has been reported). > Did you use the verbose option to see which imap commands are being sent? Depending on that it could either be a c-client or mutt problem. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>