myglc2 <[email protected]> writes: > Dave Abrahams <[email protected]> writes: >> >> Yes. Other things that work really well in a setup like that are: >> >> 1. Using dovecot's mdbox storage format, which is much more efficient >> >> 2. Building dovecot with clucene and stemmer support for search >> >> 3. Using mbsync from the isync project (scales much better than >> offlineimap IMO, > > I saw this too. mbsync (AKA isync) was ~30 times faster in my tests. It
Very interesting - I might look into isync than. > was also important to build from the git repo because, at least a month > or two ago, the tar.gz at version 1.2.1 was missing a feature that turns > out to be important in my gmail sync setup. Which feature was this, if I may ask? I would also use isync for syncing a gmail account. Could you share your config so that I can have an idea what I am looking at in a change ti isync? How do these two compare in regards to stability (offlineimap has e.g. an issue wit suspend on the Mac)? > > Built from the git repo it shows this version info: > > g1@g1 ~$ mbsync --version > isync 1.3.0 Yup - that is the one I also have now from git. > >> though I am about to try dropping it because doveadm sync is already >> part of dovecot) > > A couple months ago I put a fair amount of effort into trying to use > dovecot sync. I ended up concluding that mbsync is faster and easier to > config. Thanks, Rainer > > > _______________________________________________ > info-gnus-english mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english -- Rainer M. Krug email: Rainer<at>krugs<dot>de PGP: 0x0F52F982
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