IMAP sync tool (rsync for IMAP)

[Patrick T. Tsang]

Hello,

This problem really annoys most people, including me.
The old version kills all the system memory and even create zombie.

syncinternaldates option is very important to many mail client.
By missing this option, I think this is a GREAT impact.

Hopely you guys find a prompt solution.

Greatly thanks
Patrick




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rich Graves" <rgraves at carleton.edu>
To: <info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 11:51 PM
Subject: Re: IMAP sync tool (rsync for IMAP)


> I'd started taking this offline because it's not entirely on-topic for 
> info-cyrus, but I realize that it has broad impact...
> 
> On Jan 3 2007, at 8:37 PM, Jo Rhett wrote:
>> On Jan 3, 2007, at 9:20 AM, James Miller wrote:
>>> I have 2 users left on an OLD Cyrus installation I want to get off  
>>> and was
>>> hoping to use imapsync.  It seemed to work just fine except dates  
>>> of the
>>> messages from the old server to the new were not retained.  All of the
>>> messages have the date they were imported instead.
>> 
>> You need the syncinternaldates.  Did you do a sync already without  
>> that option?  You need to toast the destination and resync it to get  
>> the dates fixed...
> 
> --syncinternaldates stopped working at imapsync 1.200 (current is 
> 1.204), as a side effect of the append_string->append_file change 
> suggested by John Capo and Florin Andrei earlier in this thread, on Dec 
> 26, 2006. That change was made to avoid memory exhaustion, see 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.edu/msg31296.html
> 
> The underlying problem is that at least as of Mail::IMAPClient 2.2.9, 
> the append_file function doesn't handle INTERNALDATE at all.
> 
> A bunch of people here have talked about minor patches to 
> Mail::IMAPClient. Has anyone added the $d argument to append_file and 
> verified functionality?
> 
> Most clients display Date: header, but some may show or use 
> INTERNALDATE. For example, the Zimbra web interface is incapable of 
> showing or sorting by Date:.
> 
> See also http://www.zimbra.com/forums/showthread.php?p=33880#post33880
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