On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 04:30:28PM +0000, MJ Ray wrote:
Chris Green chris@areti.co.uk
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 03:28:23PM +0000, MJ Ray wrote:
Can't mailsync do that without maildir? Maildir always looked to me like a third-choice format for normal users, after mbox and mh.
Can it? There aren't IMAP servers at both ends, isn't mailsync an IMAP tool? [...]
"Mailsync's mailboxes can be on IMAP servers, on the local filesystem in UNIX, MH, or any other format c-client supports" and with sshfs and other network mounts, "local" filesystem need not be local. http://mailsync.sourceforge.net/
Ah yes, it does work with local mailboxes but it *doesn't* do what I want. I don't want my two mailboxes to be identical and I'm pretty sure that mailsync will make the two identical.
What I want is as I described previously but maybe I wasn't clear.
Mail hierarchy A is my active working mail system where I read my mail, with limited storage. Mail hierarchy B is the archive system with lots of disk space.
What I want to do is to copy all new messsages in hierarchy A to hierarchy B, that is anything in A but not in B gets transferred. What I *don't* want to happen is that messages deleted from A will also get deleted from B.
With maildir, since every message is a unique file, I can just use rsync to copy everything from hierarchy A to hierarchy B, if it's already there rsync wastes no time copying it again.
Oh, and another reason that I can't use mailsync, hierarchy A is not on a system with an IMAP server and it's the 'remote' system, I can only run/write/use clever scripts on hierarchy A.