Subject: Re: [sup-talk] Switching to Exchange

From: Ben Gamari <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 12:38:58 -0500

Excerpts from Steve Goldman's message of Fri Feb 19 15:57:02 -0500 2010:
> 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.
> 
I would strongly encourage you to look into offlineimap. It's designed
exactly for this sort of application and does its job very well.

- Ben
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From: Steve Goldman <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:56:53 -0500

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.
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From: Mark Alexander <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:10:18 -0500

> exactly for this sort of application and does its job very well.

For the past year or so, I've been using fetchmail + postfix +
procmail to fetch mail to ~/Maildir.  Is there any reason why
offlineimap would be a better solution for use with sup?  My understanding
was that sup does not modify the mail sources, so there would be
no changes that would need to be propagated back to the IMAP server.
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From: Nicolas Pouillard <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 09:40:20 -0800 (PST)

On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:28:59 +0100, hollunder <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 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,
> > > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > 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
> I think most of us just use offlineimap.

I don't use offlineimap, I've tried it but it was not reliable enough for my amount of
messages. I stick to mpop and mboxes.

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From: Steve Goldman <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:57:02 -0500

Thanks.
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From: hollunder <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:28:59 +0100

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.