Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 11:59 -0700, Seth Mattinen wrote: >>> Now, the question is: Does anyone want dsync to only sync changes from >>> source to destination, instead of doing a full two-way sync? I think in >>> typical cases where you'd think you would want only one-way sync are >>> also the cases where there's no changes coming the other way in any >>> case. >>> >> Yes; moving mail from an old source (for example, my old home dovecot >> server which still occasionally gets mail, but otherwise I don't really >> use it). I wouldn't want all my current mail sent to it for this purpose. > > dsync probably wouldn't be such a good idea for this use case anyway. > dsync assumes that an IMAP client has accessed the mailboxes in both > source and destination, so if there are any UID conflicts (and in the > case you describe there would be UID conflicts all the time) it gives > new UIDs for the conflicting messages. >
So is this targeted as a kind of replication solution then? ~Seth
