From: me@nicholasbs.net (Nicholas Bergson-Shilcock)
Subject: [sup-talk] Transitioning to OfflineIMAP
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:32:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1246242608-sup-3151@twoface> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1244852427-sup-5831@entry>
Excerpts from William Morgan's message of Fri Jun 12 20:24:44 -0400 2009:
> Reformatted excerpts from Nicholas Bergson-Shilcock's message of 2009-06-12:
> > 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?
>
> 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.
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
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-12 22:14 Nicholas Bergson-Shilcock
2009-06-13 0:24 ` William Morgan
2009-06-29 2:32 ` Nicholas Bergson-Shilcock [this message]
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