Re: [Evolution] Syncing laptop/desktop email using unison, files to sync?

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 16:54, S. Anthony Sequeira wrote:
> Took a while to compile unison and requirements, not helped by stopping
> to watch England beat France in the World Cup :D  Thanks all who brought
> unison to my attention.
>
> Took a further while to read and understand the documentation and set up
> for Evolution syncing.
>
> I have converted all the folders to be synced to Maildir format on both
> machines, using the folder/properties method (thanks Mike).
>
> Have not OK'd the sync yet (paranoia), though I have backed up both
> evolution folders, I am presented with a list of files to sync including
> these:
>
> mbox.ev.summary mbox.ibex.index, mbox.ibex.index.data
>
> in each dirextory on both machines.
>
> Should these be synced?  Should they even be there?

Yep, they should be there. These files are indexes (see local mail
folders, right click a folder, "Properties", [x] Index body contents).

You can safely delete them (backups don't need them for example) and
unless you disabled indexing they will be recreated on next startup.

That also means: If you do not sync them as well, Evolution startup
after sync will take some time [1] as they are recreated (just not
matching the mail folders has the same recreation effect as deleting
them).

...guenther


[1]  Depending on the mail count and your machine it may be worth
fetching a coffee while waiting for the indexes being created...


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