On Fri, Feb 24 2017, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: >> I'd like to know if, for instance, there's a transient failure (such as >> connection error that I should not worry about). >> > really? your scriptlet below doesn't indicate that you do. what would > you use it for?
I don't want to post the entire script, as I do a lot more which is too specific to be useful to others. But I do accumulate transient failures and report an error if, for example, I get more than 3 consecutive ones in a row and the system is actually online. >> It's actually quite simple and very powerful. I wouldn't be able to do >> this in daemon mode, for example. >> > i see no inherent reason why that should be the case. I can control when and how to fetch just with cron. There would be quite some extra stuff required in the daemon for such fine control. >> But I can actually avoid running the re-index in the vast majority of >> the cases that even by combining them that it didn't seem necessary. >> > huh? Did you ever use "mu" or "notmuch"? Most of what I'm doing is related to the way these tools work. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ isync-devel mailing list isync-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/isync-devel
