Re: not syncing from Maildir -> IMAP

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I should clarify: the only thing OfflineIMAP does as far as
creating/deleting folders is concerned is to create new folders on the
client when they show up on the server.

On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 08:24:25PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 03:26:34PM -0700, Rob Walker wrote:
> > I stored a new email locally into a new maildir folder, and it has one
> > email in it.  When I run offlineimap, it does not create a new IMAP
> > mailbox on the IMAP server, with the new message in it, as I expected it
> > would.
> 
> OfflineIMAP does not presently create new folders on the server, nor delete
> folders that were deleted.  However, if you add that folder on the server,
> the message you put in it will be automatically synced.
> 
> This was a design decision some time back and it's now seeming not quite so
> sensible.  Maybe I'll add that feature.
> 
> -- John
> 

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