Bug#859478: offlineimap: 'maxage' comments are wrong, offlineimap DELETES your mails

2017-04-10 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Ilias Tsitsimpis (2017-04-10): > On Tue, Apr 04, 2017 at 07:10PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > > This should be fixed in newer versions of OfflineIMAP. Could you please > > > give it a try? > > > > Well, trying out new versions is something I can do, but it really doesn't >

Bug#859478: offlineimap: 'maxage' comments are wrong, offlineimap DELETES your mails

2017-04-10 Thread Ilias Tsitsimpis
On Tue, Apr 04, 2017 at 07:10PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > This should be fixed in newer versions of OfflineIMAP. Could you please > > give it a try? > > Well, trying out new versions is something I can do, but it really doesn't > help with the fact that offlineimap in stable is responsible for

Bug#859478: offlineimap: 'maxage' comments are wrong, offlineimap DELETES your mails

2017-04-04 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Ilias Tsitsimpis (2017-04-04): > Control: fixed -1 6.6.0~rc3+dfsg1-1 > > Hi Cyril, > > On Tue, Apr 04, 2017 at 01:28AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Looking at the code, it seems “is that older than maxage?” is > > implemented by looking at the timestamp in the filename

Bug#859478: offlineimap: 'maxage' comments are wrong, offlineimap DELETES your mails

2017-04-04 Thread Ilias Tsitsimpis
Control: fixed -1 6.6.0~rc3+dfsg1-1 Hi Cyril, On Tue, Apr 04, 2017 at 01:28AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Looking at the code, it seems “is that older than maxage?” is > implemented by looking at the timestamp in the filename for local > mails, which happens to be October 2016 for a mail received

Bug#859478: offlineimap: 'maxage' comments are wrong, offlineimap DELETES your mails

2017-04-03 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Cyril Brulebois (2017-04-04): > Except… deleting a few mails from 2015 on the server with a little > python script using imaplib, and running offlineimap again leads to… > the same mails getting deleted from my laptop! Given the maxage > param was set to 90, I *think* 31-Dec-2015

Bug#859478: offlineimap: 'maxage' comments are wrong, offlineimap DELETES your mails

2017-04-03 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Package: offlineimap Version: 6.3.4-1+kibi1 Severity: critical Justification: causes serious data loss Hi, Looking at a way to stay below my mail quota, I've thought of using offlineimap's "maxage" feature, which is advertised like this: # Messages older than maxage days will not be synced,