Subject: [sup-talk] Transitioning to OfflineIMAP

From: [email-masked] (Nicholas Bergson-Shilcock)
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:14:55 -0400

Hi,

I've been using sup for the past year and love it. In an attempt to
speed things up, I'm hoping to switch to using OfflineIMAP and a maildir
source (I'm currently using straight IMAP). I've installed and
configured OfflineIMAP and have downloaded all of my messages. 

Before I go any further, I wanted to know if sup supported any sort of
"graceful" account transitioning --  I'd ideally like to switch to
my new maildir source without losing the index information I have for my
IMAP source. The obvious way of switching over (removing my old source
and adding the new one) would mean essentially starting over. Is this
what I have to do or is there another way for me to switch?

Thanks! (And thanks for making sup such a joy to use!)

-Nick

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From: [email-masked] (William Morgan)
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:24:44 -0700

Reformatted excerpts from Nicholas Bergson-Shilcock's message of 2009-06-12:
> "graceful" account transitioning --  I'd ideally like to switch to my
> new maildir source without losing the index information I have for my

I wouldn't call it graceful, exactly, but you should be able to preserve
state by running sup-dump on the original source, drop the index (move
your ~/.sup/ferret directory somewhere else), edit your source.yaml
file, and use sup-sync --restored --restore <dumpfile> to scan over the
new source and restore the state for each message.

It will take a while. Try it on a subset of messages first if possible
to make sure it's working. Post any questions and I'll try and help you.
-- 
William <wmorgan-sup at masanjin.net>

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From: [email-masked] (Nicholas Bergson-Shilcock)
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:32:02 -0400

> to make sure it's working. Post any questions and I'll try and help you.

I just finally got around to trying this and it worked perfectly on the
first try. Thank you, thank you, thank you! My mail is now about an
order of magnitude faster.

Keep up the awesome work,
  -Nick