On 2 January 2014 16:53, Oswald Buddenhagen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 02:04:34PM +0000, Rob Stewart wrote:
>> 1. Duplicate folders on Exchange server.
>>
>> I am using davmail to sync with an Exchange server. For some reason,
>> there are two "Sent" folders on the server:
>>
> to analyze the problem the contents of the .mbsyncrc and the output of
> $ mbsync -l -V uni
> would be necessary. send them to me in private if you want to.

I've sent you an email privately about this.

>> 2. Plain text passwords.
>>
> as maxim pointed out, one can use PassCmd for that. there are example
> bindings to several password storage systems in mbsyncrc.sample.

Excellent. I have this working now. This was the only advantage using
offlineimap, in my use case.

>> 3. Speeding up IMAP.
>>
>> Is there a lightweight "quick sync" feature in mbsync, [...]?
>>
> you want to use --pull-new --push (or Sync PullNew Push in the config
> file).

Done. It still takes a while.. about 30 seconds or so. Should I be
satisfied with this?

>> In an loosely related question. I have previously used Thunderbird via
>> davmail, to use my remote Exchange account. I never experienced long
>> send/receive times, i.e. a few seconds.
>>
> an online imap client can do a lot of optimizations, like partial
> fetches - that's what imap was designed for.

OK. To be clear, is mbsync in any way an online imap client? Are there
command line online imap Linux clients?

>> Moreover, when I send a test file to my Exchange server, Thunderbird
>> appeared to immediately receive it (seconds later), despite thee fact
>> that I had configured Thunderbird to check for mail only every one
>> minute.
>>
> it's using the IDLE extension. see the other thread going on.

It'd be awesome to mbsync support the IDLE extension.

--
Rob

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