very slow syncing, any ideas?

[Michael Menge]

Quoting Marten Lehmann <lehmann at cnm.de>:

> Hello,
>
>>> i had much better performance with mailutil from UW-Imapd. It uses  
>>>   the IMAP-protocol like imapscyn but is not a scipt but a binary   
>>>  program and uses the imap APPEND command and does noe checks to   
>>> see  wich E-Mails are on the new server.
>
> and I hope it only deletes messages from the old server if they are
> transfered succesfully to the new server?

It does not Delete the messages at all.

> Does it keep the flags of the
> messages, too?

Yes, but i had to use "flushseenstate: 1"

> Does it also create required folders

Yes

> and subscribe them
> (if they have been subscribed on the old server)?

Im not sure about this, but you can rund imapsync or other programs to  
du this afterwards

> If you can answer
> everything with "yes", then I definetely should have a look at it,
> because while imapsync works well in general, it is really slow.
>
> Regards
> Marten
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