myglc2 <[email protected]> writes: > Dave Abrahams <[email protected]> writes: > >> on Thu Sep 29 2016, myglc2 <myglc2-AT-gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Dave Abrahams <[email protected]> writes: >>> >>>> 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. >> >> Really! >> >> I always knew it was pretty great, but this is quite surprising given >> that doveadm sync has access to dovecot's internals and can store state >> across sync runs. > > I was attracted to the idea of dovecot sync for the same reasons. But in > practice I found that the linkage between dovecot internals and dovecot > sync was confusing and the documentation was difficult to follow. > > In fairness, I should say I only experimented with dovecot and never > made it my daily driver. A savvy dovecot person might see it > differently. > >> Do you have any further details? > > I got as far as syncing between Gmail and a local Dovecot service and > watching it work. I was surprised when it was slower than mbsync. The > logging/debugging also seemed less informative. > > At about the same time I decided to use ~/Maildir with git backup as my > primary mail archive, so I didn't investigate it further.
Ha - git as backup for maildir - sounds perfect. Never thought about that. 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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