From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/86688 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: duplicates with offlineimap+dovecot Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2016 14:40:06 -0800 Message-ID: References: <878u34uyk4.fsf@free.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1454366735 32338 80.91.229.3 (1 Feb 2016 22:45:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 22:45:35 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M34914@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Feb 01 23:45:22 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.208]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aQNDh-0001wx-Gr for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 01 Feb 2016 23:45:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1aQNDd-0002hb-7w; Mon, 01 Feb 2016 16:45:13 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1aQNDa-0002h6-V4 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 01 Feb 2016 16:45:11 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1aQNDa-0004C2-Cn for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 01 Feb 2016 16:45:10 -0600 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1aQNDZ-0006Mq-0Q for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 01 Feb 2016 23:45:09 +0100 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aQNDT-0001hg-CE for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 01 Feb 2016 23:45:03 +0100 Original-Received: from 17.212.145.127 ([17.212.145.127]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 01 Feb 2016 23:45:03 +0100 Original-Received: from dave by 17.212.145.127 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 01 Feb 2016 23:45:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 47 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 17.212.145.127 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ksD/EUKlqY7WzZk/WPmYydeZAGc= X-Spam-Score: -0.8 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:86688 Archived-At: on Mon Feb 01 2016, Julien Cubizolles 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