On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 8:02 AM, Felipe Contreras <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 7:20 AM, Theodore Ts'o <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 09:54:28PM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote: >>> After I fetched the whole label I realized that offlineimap does also >>> take a long long time, and is synchronizing all the flags. It's >>> slightly faster than mbsync at doing so, but that's not an issue. >> >> Is this for the first time that you try to access a folder, or >> afterwards? > > Every single time. > >> I keep a folder that has about 1GB worth of e-mails, with >> about 40,000 mail messages. Using mbsync hasn't really been a problem >> once the folder has been initially downloaded, since we do a good job >> caching the header information. There is the initial overhead of >> downloading the set of e-mail messages which are still on the mail >> server when we first start up the mbsync connection, but that's a >> straightforward download of the information, and it's not done in a >> lock-step fashion. > > The problem is not the downloading of new messages, it's the time it > takes to synchronize all the flags. The folder I'm testing has almost > 150,000 messages, and it's not the biggest one, just the biggest I've > synced so far. Try 'Sync PullNew' and see how long it takes in your > folder.
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