Unpredictable results from imapsync runs

Alain Spineux aspineux at gmail.com
Mon Nov 3 15:25:58 EST 2008


On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 7:04 PM, Ciprian Marius Vizitiu (GBIF)
<cvizitiu at gbif.org> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I'm trying to migrate a small 120GB IMAP store from a 32 bit Cyrus 2.2.12 on
> RHEL4 to a 64 bit Cyrus 2.3.7 running on RHEL5.
>
> Multiple test runs of imapsync on a 4.2 GB folder will result in annoying
> errors e.g. one of the destinations will show some extra 5 unread messages
> (in one folder) and/or 2 messages missing in another =:-o ... No easy way to
> predict which folder will be affected and I'm sure nobody's been messin'
> with the affected test folders.
>
> A scan of the logs left me empty handed so any hints would be appreciated.
> o:-)

Are you sure the cache of the imap client you are using is really in
sync with both client ?
Are you sure the source mailbox in not corrupted ? a reconstruct could be useful

Regards.

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