Re: [sup-devel] A maildir root source: syncing labels with maildirs (imap folders)

From: Steven Schmeiser <steven@schmeiser.org>
To: sup-devel <sup-devel@rubyforge.org>
Subject: Re: [sup-devel] A maildir root source: syncing labels with maildirs (imap folders)
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 13:23:24 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1385403694-sup-5692@indy.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1385392376-sup-8491@qwerzila>

Hi,
I'm very interested in trying out this branch.

I don't know the sup internals very well, so I'm having a hard time figuring this out on my own, but what config options need to be changed/set to use maildir-root?  I'm currently using marildir-sync.

Thanks for all your work on sup!

Steve

> Hi fellow suppers,
> 
> for a while I have been using a 'maildir-root' source that I created.
> It is based on the maildir-syncback code, but goes further: you only
> specify a root folder with maildirs to the source, then each sub folder
> (maildirsub) is mapped to a label. Some of the labels are special: like
> deleted, inbox and archive (the special-label to maildirsub mapping can
> be specified in the source configuration).
> 
> This means that a sup label corresponds to maildir inside the
> maildir-root and the behavior works like this:
> 
>   - (remote to local) if a message is found in a maildirsub that label is added to it.
>   - (remote to local) if a message is removed from a maildirsub that
>     label is removed (unless it has just been moved).
>   - (local to remote) if you add a label the message is written to that
>     maildirsub (of all the maildir-roots the message belongs to)
>   - (local to remote) if you remove a label from a message the message is deleted
>     from that maildirsub. if it is deleted from all maildirsubs it is
>     copied to the archive maildirsub.
>   - (local to remote) if you archive a message it is removed from the
>     inbox maildirsub, if it doesn't belong to any other
>     labels/maildirsubs it is copied to archive.
>   - (local to remote / remote to local) the same flag features as
>     maildir-syncback (done on all copies in all maildirsubs)
>   - (local to remote) if you add a label to a message and the message
>     belongs to a maildir-root where no corresponding maildirsub exists a
>     maildir will be created for it.
> 
> I have been using it for 4-5 months now and it is getting fairly stable.
> It works fairly well on gmail (label sync), but I am also using it on
> regular IMAP servers (here it might, in the future, be useful to always keep a copy in
> archive).
> 
> If you are interested in trying this please have a look at:
> https://github.com/gauteh/sup/blob/maildir-root/lib/sup/maildirroot.rb
> 
> or my branch: https://github.com/gauteh/sup/tree/maildir-root, but please
> be careful.
> 
> I am using this with offlineimap and utf-7-imap to utf-8 conversion. It
> is probably necessary to do a full sync every time to make sure things
> stay in sync. Remember that it is technically possible to still do
> changes to the maildir while offlineimap is syncing, I haven't had any
> problems with this (except read flag), but it is potentially a little
> careless.
> 
> 
> Cheers, Gaute
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