On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 10:52:41PM -0500, Rafael Espíndola wrote: > Just wanted to share the experience I had so far tuning offline imap > to work with my gmail account. > > I never delete emails, so by now I have a lot of them. I also love > labels and really want to sync them. > > I started with > http://www.offlineimap.org/doc/use_cases.html#sync-from-gmail-to-a-local-maildir-with-labels. > The initial sync took a few days and created a 21 GB MailDir. That is > fine for an initial setup. > > The issue I was then having is that each sync would take a few > minutes, even if there was only one new email. The problem is that -q > can only skip the sync if there is no new email and that is almost > never the case when syncing the "All Mail" label and being subscribed > to some open source project mailing list. > > Adding a few prints I found that almost all the time was in > > res_type, response = imapobj.fetch("'%s'"% msgsToFetch, > '(FLAGS X-GM-LABELS UID)') > > And that was because it was getting information about all the > messages. Looking around the code for where min_date and min_uid were > coming from the solution I found was to, after the initial setup, add > > sync_deletes = no > > to both folders (I never delete email anyway) and add maxage to the > account. Now offlineimap finds the last uid I fetched in the last few > days and asks for just those, but doesn't delete any email. > > If I ever change labels of old messages in gmail I will have to > remember to temporally comment maxage to sync the change but that is > probably fine.
Be aware that changing maxage might not be as fast, currently. See https://github.com/OfflineIMAP/offlineimap/issues/384 Thank you for this feedback. If you're willing to write a blog post, the official blog is open to contributions. ,-) http://www.offlineimap.org/posts.html Putting the emphasis to both strongness and weakness is welcome. -- Nicolas Sebrecht _______________________________________________ OfflineIMAP-project mailing list: [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/offlineimap-project OfflineIMAP homepages: - https://github.com/OfflineIMAP - http://offlineimap.org
