Re: [sup-talk] [sup-devel] sup: Fix for an UndefinedMethodError

[Gaute Hope <eg@gaute.vetsj.com>]

On 16. april 2013 23:21, Matthieu Rakotojaona wrote:
> On 04/16, Eric Weikl wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I created a new branch with all the commits from Damien Leone and Edward
>> Yang related to maildir syncback and put it here:
>>
>> https://github.com/sup-heliotrope/sup/tree/maildir-sync
>>
>> I skipped some advanced stuff like Edward's inotify support for now. We
>> can add that later.
>>
>> I performed some basic testing, but it would be great if some more people
>> could give it a try. There's some documentation in the wiki:
>>
>> https://github.com/sup-heliotrope/sup/wiki/Maildir-Syncback
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Eric
> 
> Fantastic. Not being able to sync back was what prevented me from using
> it. After much work and discouragement with heliotrope, I will gladly
> try this !
> 
> On a longer-term note, syncing back to maildir has the limitation that
> non-standard flags (i.e labels) will not be handled, unless we start
> defining some custom way of storing them or modifying the original
> emails, which I highly dislike (this is how mu[0] works). But that's
> just something to keep in mind for future times, when we have a stable,
> up-to-date sup release. Let's do this ! =]
> 
> [0] http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/
> 

Great!

Put up a wikipage for collecting some resources on this:
https://github.com/sup-heliotrope/sup/wiki/Development:-Maildir-syncback

Also a notmuch user created a script for syncing labels to maildir
folders:
https://github.com/altercation/es-bin/blob/master/maildir-notmuch-sync

Cheers, Gaute