Re: 3 way sync?

[Simon Guest <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At Thu, 27 Jan 2005 09:39:03 -0700,
Matthew P Barnson wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 09:51:08 +0000, Simon Guest <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I have a 3 machines:...
> <snip>
> > Suppose some mail arrives on the server.  I offlineimap it onto the
> > laptop.  Now it's on both server and laptop, but not on the desktop.
> > If I now offlineimap laptop with desktop, rather than copying the mail
> > to the desktop, it gets deleted from the laptop.
> 
> The only really sensible way I see this working is to synchronize both the
> laptop and the desktop directly to the Exchange server.  OfflineIMAP was made
> to synchronize IMAP to Maildir -- I've never heard of it being used to
> synchronize Maildir to Maildir.

I'm already doing IMAP to Maildir, using courier-imap on the desktop.
Sorry if this wasn't sufficiently clear.

> I *think* this should work safely; I can't think of a situation off the top of
> my head where you'd lose data in such a 3-way sync.  However, I haven't tried
> it; I use offlineimap a lot, but I've heretofore always synched multiple
> clients to the same server source.

I don't recommend you do try it.  It doesn't appear to work safely!

cheers,
Simon