Re: [sup-talk] Switching to Exchange

[hollunder <hollunder@lavabit.com>]

Excerpts from Steve Goldman's message of 2010-02-19 21:57:02 +0100:
> Excerpts from Steve Goldman's message of Thu Feb 18 17:56:53 -0500 2010:
> > 
> > Hey guys,
> > 
> > Thanks for the wild ride, but I need to switch to something more
> > reliable.  Not sure if there are incompatibilities with my version of
> > ruby or whatnot, but I'm getting ridiculous CPU usage and random seg
> > faults.  It's too much stress for me.  And after a crash when I
> > restart, I have a random collection of seventy or so messages in my
> > inbox, even though it was zero when I crashed.
> > 
> > This combined with not being able to convert to xapian without a seg
> > fault...
> > 
> > Maybe I'll be back some day.
> > 
> > Good luck.
> 
> In case anyone was worried, I'm back.  I took matters into my own
> hand.
> 
> Essentially, I was dealing with a slow IMAP server.  Since sup doesn't
> cache IMAP messages locally, this gave me huge headaches when trying
> to sync with the server during busy times.
> 
> The remedy was to download all the messages off the server into a
> local mbox file and to use fetchmail/procmail to poll for new IMAP
> messages and append them to the mbox file.
> 
> As a result, I was able to successfully use sup-sync to build a xapian
> index and everything is lightning fast.  Life is good... for now.
> 
> Thanks.
> -- 
> 
> Steve Goldman
> sgoldman@tower-research.com
> 
> T: 212.219.6014
> F: 212.219.6007
> 
> Tower Research Capital, LLC
> 377 Broadway, 11th Fl.
> New York, NY 10013

I think most of us just use offlineimap.
Tough if the imap server is acting up it doesn't help either, happened
to me recently and offlineimap ran for minutes instead of seconds until
they fixed it.

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