[Evolution] Re: mailsync questions/request

[Tomas Pospisek <tpo sourcepole ch>]

On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, David Ronis wrote:

[instead of writing me directly - could you instead write to the mailsync
 mailing list?]

> I've been using mailsync-5.2.1 to keep my mail folders on my laptop and
> desktop in sync.  It's been working perfectly and plays an important
> role in my work.  Unfortunately, I've had to switch to evolution as my
> mail client (I used vm under emacs before) and have had trouble keeping
> things in sync.  From what I can tell, evolution uses a standard unix
> mailbox format and mailsync DOES sync the files properly; the problem is
> that various index files under evolution aren't synced which causes
> evolution to complain when it's run (e.g., it says it can't save the
> mail folder even "after a sync", whatever that means).
>
> I've found that running a program called multisync (from opensync)
> somehow restores the indices, even though it DOESN'T sync the mail
> folders.
>
> Any idea what/how to rebuild evolution's indices (if indeed that is the
> problem);

No, I don't.

> 2) if so, could this be automated into mailsync?
>
> Finally, on an different topic, a feature request.  My mail files are
> huge and I compress them with bzip2.  Any chance that you could add
> compressed read/write support into mailsync?

I think these two points are best addressed by a script. Just wrap a few 
line around mailsync that:

* call multisync, since that seems to help
* unzip the mailfolder, call mailsync, and rezip it

Greets,
*t

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