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From: Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: duplicates with offlineimap+dovecot
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2016 14:40:06 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2vb68cawp.fsf@boostpro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878u34uyk4.fsf@free.fr>


on Mon Feb 01 2016, Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizolles-AT-free.fr> wrote:

Some unsolicited hints...

> I've the following setup:
>
> Two different IMAP accounts (free.fr and gmail.com). Both are
> synchronized with offlineimap

Hint: mbsync (a.k.a. isync) > offlineimap.

I've tried both extensively; just saying.

> and dovecot 

Hint: use dovecot's mdbox format; it's super efficient on-disk.

> to local IMAP folders, both accessed from Gnus with nnimap. This setup
> is used on 2 different computers.
>
> It's working fine except that I very often (almost at every
> synchronization) I end up with duplicates of some messages on the
> local IMAP folder, they are however not propagated to the distance
> IMAP server.
>
> It's not very inconvenient since gnus-suppress-duplicates takes care of
> if but I'm confused:
>
> + It seems to only happen with the free.fr account, although I couldn't
>   be sure since I don't have a lot of traffic on the gmail.com one
> + I never have the two computers running at the same time so there can't
>   be 2 offlineimap running at the same time.

You might have better luck with mbsync here.

> I have Gnus doing some splitting (including the detection of duplicates)
> on the local IMAP folders and some spam autodetection. Since the
> duplicates are not synced back to the remote server, could it be a
> problem with Gnus accessing the same message a second time and thinking
> it's a duplicate of the first one ? Have you ever experienced something
> similar ?
>
> Julien.

-- 
-Dave




      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-02-01 22:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-01 17:31 Julien Cubizolles
2016-02-01 22:34 ` Malcolm Purvis
2016-02-02  8:49   ` Julien Cubizolles
2016-02-09 11:05   ` Emilio Jesús Gallego Arias
2016-02-09 23:42     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-10  1:17       ` Emilio Jesús Gallego Arias
2016-02-10  2:56         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-10 22:18           ` Emilio Jesús Gallego Arias
2016-02-10 23:56             ` Emilio Jesús Gallego Arias
2016-02-13  6:52               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-13 14:03             ` Emilio Jesús Gallego Arias
2016-02-14  2:34               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-14  4:05                 ` Emilio Jesús Gallego Arias
2016-02-14  4:36                   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-14  4:56                     ` Emilio Jesús Gallego Arias
2016-02-14  5:23                       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-14 12:19                         ` Emilio Jesús Gallego Arias
2016-02-15  7:54                           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-20  7:52                             ` Steinar Bang
2016-02-20  8:21                               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-20 14:47                                 ` Steinar Bang
2016-02-22 23:12                                 ` Emilio Jesús Gallego Arias
2016-02-23  0:58                                   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-23 18:54                                     ` Emilio Jesús Gallego Arias
2016-02-23 22:05                                       ` Dan Christensen
2016-02-24  1:10                                         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-24  1:11                                       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-24 17:59                                         ` Emilio Jesús Gallego Arias
2016-02-01 22:40 ` Dave Abrahams [this message]

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