Synchronization success stories?

2014-04-16 Thread Tilmann Singer
David Bremner writes: >> With a reused ssh connection this is sufficiently fast for me (<2s). If >> there is interest I can clean up the script of hardcoded paths etc. and >> put it on github. > > Sure, sounds at least as good as what I am using. Also, syncmaildir > recently did something pretty

Re: Synchronization success stories?

2014-04-15 Thread Tilmann Singer
David Bremner writes: >> With a reused ssh connection this is sufficiently fast for me (<2s). If >> there is interest I can clean up the script of hardcoded paths etc. and >> put it on github. > > Sure, sounds at least as good as what I am using. Also, syncmaildir > recently did something pretty

Synchronization success stories?

2014-04-13 Thread Tilmann Singer
David Mazieres writes: > What happens if you get a message that's been stuck in a queue for a few > days and has an old Date: header? It would be missed. I have set the timespan to look backwards for new mail to one month to be a bit safer against the stuck-in-queue cases, but mails with older D

Synchronization success stories?

2014-04-13 Thread Tilmann Singer
I have experimented with offlineimap, syncmaildir and rsync. The append-only approach of notmuch makes synchronization of the mail corpus simpler, so there are lots of options. With ssh access to the server, I found rsync to be conceptually the simplest, but it turned out to be too slow for me (w

Re: Synchronization success stories?

2014-04-13 Thread Tilmann Singer
David Mazieres writes: > What happens if you get a message that's been stuck in a queue for a few > days and has an old Date: header? It would be missed. I have set the timespan to look backwards for new mail to one month to be a bit safer against the stuck-in-queue cases, but mails with older D

Re: Synchronization success stories?

2014-04-13 Thread Tilmann Singer
I have experimented with offlineimap, syncmaildir and rsync. The append-only approach of notmuch makes synchronization of the mail corpus simpler, so there are lots of options. With ssh access to the server, I found rsync to be conceptually the simplest, but it turned out to be too slow for me (w