Re: Evolution Mistake

[Carlos Moffat <carlos.lst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 00:48 +0900, Bernhard Egger wrote:
> On 08/27/2007 11:45 PM, Carlos Moffat wrote:
> [snip]
> >> Nevertheless, from the docs/man page I guess what should work is the 
> >> following:
> >>
> >> 1. delete all your mail on the server (all mails/folders in/below INBOX)
> >> 2. delete the ~/.offlineimap directory
> >> 3. change the separator character to what it was when you created the 
> >> local copy
> >> 4. sync, i.e., run offlineimap
> >>
> >> I guess right now you have stale information in your ~/.offlineimap 
> >> directory.
> >> By deleting that directory, it will start clean and should IMHO copy all 
> >> your
> >> mails back to the server.
> >>
> > This didn't work. All the local emails got deleted.
> > 
> > I guess I'll need to recover things some other way.
> > 
> sorry to hear that. I have tried your scenario myself, and indeed it did
> not work. Here's what I have done:
> 1. created a new user/mailaccount on our mailserver
> 2. sent one message to that account
> 3. setup offlineimap and synchronized the new account
> 4. copied some folders from another local copy (in maildir format, of
> course) into the directory tree of the test account.
> 5. ran offlineimap
> 
> I would have expected offlineimap to sychronize the local storage with
> the remote server, i.e., create the new folders on the server and copy
> the messages. However, nothing happened.
> 
> The documentation at
> http://software.complete.org/offlineimap/static/doc/manual.html, chapter
>  "Deleting Local Folders" reads "OfflineIMAP does a two-way
> synchronization. That is, if you make a change to the mail on the
> server, it will be propagated to your local copy, and vise-versa."
> 
> Unfortunately, this does not seem to work - at least not as I understand
> it (also see my other post to this mailing list today).
> 
> I have re-run offlineimap with -1 -d imap,maildir and logged the output.
>  Maybe a developer can tell us what we are doing wrong.
> 
> configuration: http://www.barnoid.com/offlineimap.rc
> debug log: http://www.barnoid.com/debug.log
> metadata: http://www.barnoid.com/offlineimap.metadata.tgz
> 
> Thanks,
> Barnoid

Hey, thanks for your effort. I guess either:

1) being able to change the sep from '.' to '/' in the local copy I have
(so evolution can see it properly), or ...
2) being able to synchronize the copy I already have.

would solve the problem for me.

Carlos