From: Nicolas Pouillard <nicolas.pouillard@gmail.com>
To: hollunder <hollunder@lavabit.com>, sup-talk <sup-talk@rubyforge.org>
Subject: Re: [sup-talk] Switching to Exchange
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 09:40:20 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4b817004.0f67f10a.39f6.7d86@mx.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1266614806-sup-9832@eris>
On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:28:59 +0100, hollunder <hollunder@lavabit.com> wrote:
> Excerpts from Steve Goldman's message of 2010-02-19 21:57:02 +0100:
> > Excerpts from Steve Goldman's message of Thu Feb 18 17:56:53 -0500 2010:
> > >
> > > Hey guys,
> > >
> > > Thanks for the wild ride, but I need to switch to something more
> > > reliable. Not sure if there are incompatibilities with my version of
> > > ruby or whatnot, but I'm getting ridiculous CPU usage and random seg
> > > faults. It's too much stress for me. And after a crash when I
> > > restart, I have a random collection of seventy or so messages in my
> > > inbox, even though it was zero when I crashed.
> > >
> > > This combined with not being able to convert to xapian without a seg
> > > fault...
> > >
> > > Maybe I'll be back some day.
> > >
> > > Good luck.
> >
> > In case anyone was worried, I'm back. I took matters into my own
> > hand.
> >
> > Essentially, I was dealing with a slow IMAP server. Since sup doesn't
> > cache IMAP messages locally, this gave me huge headaches when trying
> > to sync with the server during busy times.
> >
> > The remedy was to download all the messages off the server into a
> > local mbox file and to use fetchmail/procmail to poll for new IMAP
> > messages and append them to the mbox file.
> >
> > As a result, I was able to successfully use sup-sync to build a xapian
> > index and everything is lightning fast. Life is good... for now.
> >
> > Thanks.
> > --
> >
> > Steve Goldman
> > sgoldman@tower-research.com
> >
> > T: 212.219.6014
> > F: 212.219.6007
> >
> > Tower Research Capital, LLC
> > 377 Broadway, 11th Fl.
> > New York, NY 10013
>
> I think most of us just use offlineimap.
I don't use offlineimap, I've tried it but it was not reliable enough for my amount of
messages. I stick to mpop and mboxes.
--
Nicolas Pouillard
http://nicolaspouillard.fr
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-21 17:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-18 22:56 Steve Goldman
2010-02-19 20:57 ` Steve Goldman
2010-02-19 21:28 ` hollunder
2010-02-21 17:40 ` Nicolas Pouillard [this message]
2010-02-20 17:38 ` Ben Gamari
2010-02-20 21:10 ` Mark Alexander
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