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From: "Edward Z. Yang" <ezyang@MIT.EDU>
To: Damien Leone <damien.leone@fensalir.fr>
Cc: sup-devel <sup-devel@rubyforge.org>
Subject: Re: [sup-devel] Adding backward synchronization for Maildir sources
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:46:08 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1278704722-sup-2256@ezyang> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1278695023-sup-8869@mailer>

Excerpts from Damien Leone's message of Fri Jul 09 13:14:58 -0400 2010:
> > 1. Suppose we decide to test your branch, and run into some show-stopper
> >    bugs.  What’s the procedure for backing out changes?
> 
> You should backup your Maildir directories and your xapian index, this
> is what I did and if something goes wrong I can still restore my
> backups and run offlineimap to resynch everything as it was before on
> the IMAP server.
> 
> But for my initial tests I used a test Maildir containing nothing
> important so maybe this is what you should do. ;)

I doubt a test Maildir will give you the sort of test pressure that you’re
looking for. Go go real datasets.

> > 2. What precisely are the semantics for handling Sup labels?
> 
> I followed the Maildir documentation [0]. When synching a message, Sup
> builds the flags string and relink the file to the disk, moving it
> from new/ to cur/ or vice versa if needed.
> 
> Related labels are: unread, replied, forwarded, deleted, draft (but it
> won't work for now because draft messages in Sup are handled
> separately), flagged (aka starred).

Great, thanks!  I’ll give it a spin this weekend.

Edward
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-09 20:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-09 16:44 Damien Leone
2010-07-09 16:56 ` Edward Z. Yang
2010-07-09 17:14   ` Damien Leone
2010-07-09 19:46     ` Edward Z. Yang [this message]
2010-07-17 12:55 ` Damien Leone
2010-07-17 17:05   ` Ben Walton
2010-07-17 17:26     ` Damien Leone
2010-07-18 11:19   ` Tero Tilus
2010-07-18 22:46 ` Edward Z. Yang
2010-07-20  9:39   ` Damien Leone
2010-07-21  0:44     ` Edward Z. Yang
2010-07-21  8:52       ` Damien Leone
2010-07-21  8:54         ` Damien Leone
2010-07-18 22:50 ` Edward Z. Yang
2010-07-20  9:45   ` Damien Leone
2010-07-18 22:57 ` Edward Z. Yang
2010-07-24 21:30 ` Rich Lane
2010-07-25 22:25   ` Edward Z. Yang
2011-03-13 16:41 ` Damien Leone
2011-10-27 12:34   ` Justin Mazzi

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