IMAP sync tool (rsync for IMAP)

[John Capo]

Quoting Florin Andrei (florin at andrei.myip.org):
> John Capo wrote:
> >
> >A 32MB message occupies a lot more than 32MB when its a Perl string.
> >Use a temp file instead.
> >
> >    my $message_file = "/tmp/xfer-$$";
> >    unlink($message_file);
> >    $from->message_to_file($message_file, $f_msg);
> >
> >And further down.
> >
> >   unless($new_id = $to->append_file($t_fold, $message_file, $flags_f, $d))
> >
> >Instead of 
> >
> >   unless($new_id = $to->append_string($t_fold,$string, $flags_f, $d))
> 
> It's hard to tell without actually testing that change, but I assume it 
> would slow down the script a little bit?

I doubt that you would see a speed difference unless you were
transferring to and from completely idle GigE connected machines
and maybe not even then.

> Anyway, slower is better than crashing. I'll try and contact the author 
> to make him aware of this discussion thread.

Agreed.

> 
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> Florin Andrei
> 
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