From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: "No such article" error
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:39:51 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iqf3gmko.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yb0y6nzgz0h.fsf@osl2u223.oslo2.fast.no>
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:11:10 +0200 Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> wrote:
>>>>>> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>:
>> Maildirs can't be rsynced IIRC. You need to use a program that does it.
SB> Sure you can rsync. The --fuzzy flag is your friend:
SB> <nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.imap.dovecot/33313 >
SB> <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.mail.imap.dovecot/33313 >
SB> The problem for rsync, is that the file name is changed when the state
SB> of the message is changed. But the fuzzy flag looks for similar-looking
SB> name and if everything else matches, takes it as the same file.
SB> (FWIW you could always rsync. rsync is pretty good at mirroring file
SB> system hierarchies. It just wouldn't neccessarily be efficient network
SB> wise. It would have to delete the file with the old file name, and
SB> retransfer the new one, when a message's status is changed)
Sorry. I was thinking of the qmail queue, which stores files named the
same as their inode number, which can't be rsynced easily. Maildirs are
not related to this (except I first used them when I started using
qmail, so I mistakenly connected them to the qmail queue).
Ted
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-28 14:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-24 0:35 Dan Davison
2009-09-24 1:13 ` Dan Davison
2009-09-25 20:53 ` Ted Zlatanov
2009-09-28 10:11 ` Steinar Bang
2009-09-28 14:39 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
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