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Re: [sup-devel] Strange maildir/OfflineImap/maildir-sync behavior
Sup Edward,
Excerpts from Edward Z. Yang's message of mer. janv. 19 15:08:23 +0100 2011:
> One day, I opened up an old thread to reread an email, and much
> to my dismay, it was GONE! Instead, there was one of those little
> red flags that Sup sticks on mail that is referenced by other
> threads, but which you don't have a copy of.
>
> This was a bit bothersome, because no one likes it when their mail mysteriously
> disappears. (It harkens back to a time when I accidentally deleted my entire
> inbox, tried to undo, but Sup crashed in the process and then offlineimap
> decided to sync the changes back to my main account, so I had to restore from
> backup and run with maxage... but that's a story for another time...)
>
> Some sleuthing, however, revealed that the messages had not disappeared; they
> were still in my Maildir. And sure enough, when I made Sup repoll the entire
> Maildir (by restarting it), the messages reappeared (along with another 50
> messages that I /swear/ I archived).
>
> So my question is, why did Sup lose track of the messages? Did it pick them
> up while they were in new and then OfflineIMAP moved them and they got lost?
> Can I make Sup tell me where it thinks a message should be living on my filesystem
> so I can track these things? Is this actually OfflineIMAP's fault?
I didn't notice this bug so I have no idea for the moment. :/
> P.S. Hey Damien, I know you're not planning on working on getting maildir-sync
> merged to master until later this January, but I was wondering if a version of
> the branch rebased on master would be of any use to you.
Sure! I was maintaining a maildir-sync-master branch on my repository
but it doesn't include the last bunch of commits.
--
Damien Leone <damien.leone@fensalir.fr>
Web: http://dleone.fensalir.fr/
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