On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 6:56 AM, Gammel Holte <[email protected]> wrote: > >> So at the end of the day, the real difference is that offlineimap does >> allow me to set a maxage for the messages, while mbsync does not. >> >> That's why I cannot use my folders with lots of messages, and that's >> why it takes so long to sync the flags. > > > I agree that a working maxage is the major missing feature in mbsync. > Without it, large folders are unusable. > > Right now, MaxMessages works after the second sync. So it will download all > your messages, and then discard some. This might be a temporary workaround.
Maybe, but that defeats the purpose of trying to avoid a massive download of messages. > I haven't tested it extensively. I used it to prune my local folder after > the first sync, and then disabled it to avoid the burden of deleting some > local messages on every sync. Something like MaxMessages working during the > first sync would be a huge step forward. That's actually what I want: first I want to download a limited amout of mails, and after that don't delete anything, just download the new ones. -- Felipe Contreras ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60134071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ isync-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/isync-devel
