"sync, copy or migration tool" about imapsync HOT 7 CLOSED

Maybe there is no option for two-way synchronization:

    imapsync is not adequate for maintaining two active imap accounts

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In that case clone may be a better expression than sync.
What do you think?

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Hi Viktor,

Could you give an example of these cases or put it in the readme?

• copy all emails from host1 to host2

This is the default, precision "copy emails not already copied".

• copy all emails from host1 to host2 (overwrite option)

What means overwrite here?
Might be the --delete2 option.

• copy all emails from host2 to host1 would it be just swapping options on the command line?

Yes.

• synchronize in both direction

What is synchronize in both direction?

Give me the good rules to synchronize in both direction.

Example 1:
Host1: Message_A is flagged \Deleted
Host2: Message_A is flagged \Read

Example 2:
Host1: Message_B is deleted
Host2: Message_B is flagged \Important

What imapsync should do?

I have tons of ambiguous situations where I truly don't know what should
be the good behavior for syncing in both directions.

Au revoir, 09 51 84 42 42
Gilles Lamiral. France, Baulon (35580) 06 20 79 76 06

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Hi,

Maybe there is no option for two-way synchronization:

| imapsync is not adequate for maintaining two active imap accounts

Yes, there is no option because I don't know what robust behavior imapsync should have.

Au revoir, 09 51 84 42 42
Gilles Lamiral. France, Baulon (35580) 06 20 79 76 06

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Hi Viktor,

When you make a clone, you make one clone, if you make it twice you make two clones.

I choose imapsync with in mind the design of "rsync -a", which is not both ways either.
Both rsync and imapsync are incremental, recursive, and sync the most data and metadata they can.

Feel free to fork imapsync and call it imapclone.

Le 15/08/2014 14:37, Viktor Szépe a écrit :

In that caseclone may be a better expression than *sync.
What do you think?

Au revoir, 09 51 84 42 42
Gilles Lamiral. France, Baulon (35580) 06 20 79 76 06

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Oh! I understand your problem.
Maybe the solution is to have options for different mail status precence lists like

precedence I.

• deleted
• \Deleted
• \Read
• \Important

precedence II.

• \Read
• \Important
• deleted
• \Deleted

etc.

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Now I know that imapsync is a cloning tool.

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