On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 09:42:35PM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > On Tuesday, October 28 at 06:01 PM, quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > >Andrew Haninger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 5:53 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > So I am looking at programs that would synchronize two maildirs. > >> Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't maildir just a directory of tiny > >> files, each one an email? > >> > >> What's wrong with rsync? > > > >If I read and delete an email from my laptop, I would like it to be > >deleted at the desktop too. For that, I need to run rsync otherway but > >that could delete the new mail arrived at the desktop. > > An additional issue with rsync is that it can't track maildir flag > changes - if you change a file name (e.g. by reading a message), that > means the full message must be re-transferred.
I use unison for this. IIRC it uses the rsync protocol, but it's bidirectional, and can tell when files are the same (so if a file is moved on the server, it'll move it on the client rather than retransferring). www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ -- Benjamin M. A'Lee || mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://subvert.org.uk/~bma/ || gpg: 0xBB6D2FA0 "By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe." -- Christopher Marlowe, The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
