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.

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