Re: Sync only specific files/folders?

["Frank Thieme" <frank@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/13/2006, "John Goerzen" <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 01:34:52AM +0100, Sean Hammond wrote:
>> 2. Now add some filters in the config file.
>>
>> 3. Go into the local imap folders and delete everything, all the
>> unwanted stuff that was downloaded last time you ran offlineimap.
>>
>> 4. Run offlineimap again. The filters work, but oops, instead of
>> downloading everything to the local machine, it's deleting everything
>> from the remote machine! It's syncing in the wrong direction! Argh!
>
>I very much suspect that you didn't get your filters set up right.  If
>the filters worked, then it wouldn't have been doing this ;-)

I run in this too - if you delete the local downloaded emails and forget
to delete .offlineimap folder then offlineimap does the right thing -
deleting the IMAP emails, too. But thats not what is intended.

Bye..Frank