On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Oswald Buddenhagen <o...@kde.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 09, 2013 somewhat later, Gammel Holte wrote:
>> On Sat, Nov 09, 2013 at 11:11:09AM +0100, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
>> > On Sat, Nov 09, 2013 at 12:23:55AM +0100, Gammel Holte wrote:
>> > > The initial sync works fine, but after that messages sent by me are
>> > > never downloaded from the server.
>> > >
>> > > I don't know whether this is a misconfiguration problem from my side
>> > > (configuration pasted below), or an isync bug. In the latter case,
>> > > just let me know how I should generate a test case.
>> > >
>> > i see nothing obviously wrong with the config.
>> > please add -D -V to the command line, and send me the output.
>>
>> [the logs]
>>
> ok, got it. the algorithm is broken. duh.
> all other things being equal, it privileges messages which already have
> been downloaded. somehow it does not properly take into account that the
> messages being more recent makes them *not* equal.
>
> i also noticed a secondary problem, which is that the fetch from the
> server is still gigantic, because no messages have been expired on the
> slave yet, so the fetch optimization does not kick in yet. that's a
> minor problem, as at some point messages will be expired (unless the
> archive stopped growing at all, but then you wouldn't be using
> MaxMessages with it to start with), but still ...
>
> so two things to think about for me. please stand by ...

Oh, ok, no worries. Thanks for the active maintenance of isync. Just
let us know when you rework the algorithm and need some testers.

Best,
A.

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