On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 10:36:34PM +0100, Nicolas Boullis wrote: > But someone might be expecting this buggy behavior, and might then > experience data loss. But a big warning in the package NEWS.Debian file > would be anough, as far as I am concerned. > make it a post-install blurb like the one for isync 0.8 (the old one is obsoleted by 1.0, btw) and things will be fine, i guess. it'd also be a feature announcement in a very prominent place. :)
> > > 3) the MaxMessages option does not work at all. > > > > > i *think* it does work, in fact. however, it has some known rough edges. > > mbsync does not expire messages which it thinks you have not seen, yet. > > unfortunately, it does not consider read messages seen. :} > > you should see it delete delete all the messages again once you open the > > mailbox in the mailer (provided, it moves the messages from new/ to cur/ > > - in mutt, this is configurable). > > of course, i should fix this ... > > Here is my .isyncrc file attached (gzipped). It was working fine with > the old isync. I had 1000 messages in ~/Maildir/INBOX and around 23000 > in imap://localhost/INBOX. > Then I ran the new isync => alright. > this surprised me a bit initially, but i think i remember how it works now. :) > Then I removed a few messages from ~/Maildir/INBOX. > Then I ran the new isync again => the messages are removed from > imap://localhost/INBOX but no extra old message was downloaded to > reach 1000 messages again > this is expected. why would you want older messages to get in again? just because there is enough space? this sounds sort of arbitrary to me ... > Then I ran "rm -rf ~/Maildir/INBOX". > Then I ran "isync -L INBOX" and all remaining messages were downloaded. > now this should be the behavior i described previously. btw, i looked through the cvs log and found that i changed this in HEAD half a year ago - give it a shot and i'll backport it if it meets your expectations. -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Chaos, panic, and disorder - my work here is done. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ isync-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/isync-devel
