From: reid.thompson@ateb.com (Reid Thompson)
Subject: [sup-talk] Two questions
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:15:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1240330559.11793.52.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1240323252-sup-1276@entry>
On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 07:26 -0700, William Morgan wrote:
> Reformatted excerpts from Reid Thompson's message of 2009-04-21:
> > OK -- so to 'manage' an imap store, i'd need to setup a mechanism to
> > fetch all the email to a local store, deleting from the imap store,
> > and then do something like schedule an overnight run of sup-sync-back,
>
> There are a couple issues at play. First, if you're serious about Sup
> with IMAP, many people have gone the route of mirroring their IMAP
> folders locally using something like offlineimap. The Ruby IMAP
> libraries, and possibly IMAP itself, is otherwise too slow for how Sup
> likes to treat its mailstores.
>
> But that's not strictly necessary.
>
> Second, if you're serious about deleting email from your IMAP server (as
> opposed to just letting it stay there forever, since storage is cheap
> and the too-fleeting moments of your precious mortality are not), you'll
> need to periodically run sup-sync-back with the appropriate flags.
>
> This all stems from design decisions around Sup's target environment,
> which is that you have too much email to scan every message except in an
> offline manner. I have 229k emails in my inbox. Sup's the only client
> I know of that can scale to that. (Besides GMail of course.)
for 'fun', i setup a fastmail.fm account, to which i'm using rss2email
to push a number of feeds to. I setup offlineimap to pull these feeds
down for sup, so that I could 'manage' the imap store via sup.
Why is it expecting mbox format?
rthompso at raker ~/.sup $ sup-sync-back -d maildir:~/.fastmaildotfm/INBOX
[Tue Apr 21 12:10:07 -0400 2009] using character set encoding "UTF-8"
[Tue Apr 21 12:10:08 -0400 2009] crypto: detected gpg binary
in /usr/bin/gpg
[Tue Apr 21 12:10:08 -0400 2009] locking /home/rthompso/.sup/lock...
[Tue Apr 21 12:10:08 -0400 2009] loading index...
[Tue Apr 21 12:10:08 -0400 2009] loaded index of 920 messages
Error: maildir:~/.fastmaildotfm/INBOX is not an mbox source.
[Tue Apr 21 12:10:08 -0400 2009] unlocking /home/rthompso/.sup/lock...
offlineimap is populating ~/.fastmaildotfm/INBOX
rthompso at raker ~/.sup $ cat sources.yaml
---
....
- !masanjin.net,2006-10-01/Redwood/Maildir
uri: maildir:~/.fastmaildotfm/INBOX
cur_offset: 12403255620003971
usual: true
archived: false
id: 4
labels:
- rssmail
mtimes:
cur: 2009-04-21 11:47:05 -04:00
new: 2009-04-21 11:47:08 -04:00
- !masanjin.net,2006-10-01/Redwood/SentLoader
cur_offset: 19809
- !masanjin.net,2006-10-01/Redwood/DraftLoader
cur_offset: 0
rthompso at raker ~ $ find .fastmaildotfm/
.fastmaildotfm/
.fastmaildotfm/INBOX.Trash
.fastmaildotfm/INBOX.Trash/cur
.fastmaildotfm/INBOX.Trash/new
.fastmaildotfm/INBOX.Trash/tmp
.fastmaildotfm/INBOX.Sent Items
.fastmaildotfm/INBOX.Sent Items/cur
.fastmaildotfm/INBOX.Sent Items/new
.fastmaildotfm/INBOX.Sent Items/tmp
.fastmaildotfm/INBOX
.fastmaildotfm/INBOX/cur
.fastmaildotfm/INBOX/cur/1240328825_0.15391.raker,U=1,FMD5=7e33429f656f1e6e9d79b29c3f82c57e:2,S
.fastmaildotfm/INBOX/new
.fastmaildotfm/INBOX/new/1240328827_7.15391.raker,U=29,FMD5=7e33429f656f1e6e9d79b29c3f82c57e:2,
.fastmaildotfm/INBOX/new/1240328825_5.15391.raker,U=6,FMD5=7e33429f656f1e6e9d79b29c3f82c57e:2,
.fastmaildotfm/INBOX/new/1240328827_6.15391.raker,U=28,FMD5=7e33429f656f1e6e9d79b29c3f82c57e:2,
.fastmaildotfm/INBOX/new/1240328826_0.15391.raker,U=8,FMD5=7e33429f656f1e6e9d79b29c3f82c57e:2,
.fastmaildotfm/INBOX/new/1240328827_5.15391.raker,U=27,FMD5=7e33429f656f1e6e9d79b29c3f82c57e:2,
.fastmaildotfm/INBOX/new/1240328826_9.15391.raker,U=17,FMD5=7e33429f656f1e6e9d79b29c3f82c57e:2,
.fastmaildotfm/INBOX/new/1240328827_4.15391.raker,U=26,FMD5=7e33429f656f1e6e9d79b29c3f82c57e:2,
.fastmaildotfm/INBOX/new/1240328826_8.15391.raker,U=16,FMD5=7e33429f656f1e6e9d79b29c3f82c57e:2,
.fastmaildotfm/INBOX/new/1240328825_6.15391.raker,U=7,FMD5=7e33429f656f1e6e9d79b29c3f82c57e:2,
.fastmaildotfm/INBOX/new/1240328827_3.15391.raker,U=25,FMD5=7e33429f656f1e6e9d79b29c3f82c57e:2,
.fastmaildotfm/INBOX/new/1240328826_7.15391.raker,U=15,FMD5=7e33429f656f1e6e9d79b29c3f82c57e:2,
.fastmaildotfm/INBOX/new/1240328827_2.15391.raker,U=24,FMD5=7e33429f656f1e6e9d79b29c3f82c57e:2,
.fastmaildotfm/INBOX/new/1240328826_1.15391.raker,U=9,FMD5=7e33429f656f1e6e9d79b29c3f82c57e:2,
.fastmaildotfm/INBOX/new/1240328826_6.15391.raker,U=14,FMD5=7e33429f656f1e6e9d79b29c3f82c57e:2,
.fastmaildotfm/INBOX/new/1240328827_1.15391.raker,U=23,FMD5=7e33429f656f1e6e9d79b29c3f82c57e:2,
.fastmaildotfm/INBOX/new/1240328826_13.15391.raker,U=21,FMD5=7e33429f656f1e6e9d79b29c3f82c57e:2,
.fastmaildotfm/INBOX/new/1240328826_5.15391.raker,U=13,FMD5=7e33429f656f1e6e9d79b29c3f82c57e:2,
.fastmaildotfm/INBOX/new/1240328825_1.15391.raker,U=2,FMD5=7e33429f656f1e6e9d79b29c3f82c57e:2,
.fastmaildotfm/INBOX/new/1240328827_0.15391.raker,U=22,FMD5=7e33429f656f1e6e9d79b29c3f82c57e:2,
.fastmaildotfm/INBOX/new/1240328826_12.15391.raker,U=20,FMD5=7e33429f656f1e6e9d79b29c3f82c57e:2,
.fastmaildotfm/INBOX/new/1240328826_4.15391.raker,U=12,FMD5=7e33429f656f1e6e9d79b29c3f82c57e:2,
.fastmaildotfm/INBOX/new/1240328826_3.15391.raker,U=11,FMD5=7e33429f656f1e6e9d79b29c3f82c57e:2,
.fastmaildotfm/INBOX/new/1240328826_2.15391.raker,U=10,FMD5=7e33429f656f1e6e9d79b29c3f82c57e:2,
.fastmaildotfm/INBOX/new/1240328825_2.15391.raker,U=3,FMD5=7e33429f656f1e6e9d79b29c3f82c57e:2,
.fastmaildotfm/INBOX/new/1240328826_11.15391.raker,U=19,FMD5=7e33429f656f1e6e9d79b29c3f82c57e:2,
.fastmaildotfm/INBOX/new/1240328828_0.15391.raker,U=32,FMD5=7e33429f656f1e6e9d79b29c3f82c57e:2,
.fastmaildotfm/INBOX/new/1240328826_10.15391.raker,U=18,FMD5=7e33429f656f1e6e9d79b29c3f82c57e:2,
.fastmaildotfm/INBOX/new/1240328825_3.15391.raker,U=4,FMD5=7e33429f656f1e6e9d79b29c3f82c57e:2,
.fastmaildotfm/INBOX/new/1240328827_9.15391.raker,U=31,FMD5=7e33429f656f1e6e9d79b29c3f82c57e:2,
.fastmaildotfm/INBOX/new/1240328825_4.15391.raker,U=5,FMD5=7e33429f656f1e6e9d79b29c3f82c57e:2,
.fastmaildotfm/INBOX/new/1240328827_8.15391.raker,U=30,FMD5=7e33429f656f1e6e9d79b29c3f82c57e:2,
.fastmaildotfm/INBOX/tmp
.fastmaildotfm/INBOX.Drafts
.fastmaildotfm/INBOX.Drafts/cur
.fastmaildotfm/INBOX.Drafts/new
.fastmaildotfm/INBOX.Drafts/tmp
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-21 16:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-17 19:41 Reid Thompson
2009-04-21 13:06 ` William Morgan
2009-04-21 13:13 ` Reid Thompson
2009-04-21 14:26 ` William Morgan
2009-04-21 16:15 ` Reid Thompson [this message]
2009-04-22 15:12 ` William Morgan
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