Re: backup and synchronize to fastmail

[Alejandro Jakubi <jakubi@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 16 May 2008, Vincent Beffara wrote:

> Right - but you could have one on another machine. Better safe than
> sorry ... and it's always nice to test things with no important data,
> even if offlineimap goes to great lengths never to lose e-mail ...

I am sure that offlineimap has been developed and tested to avoid loosing
email as far as possible. But, if any particular problem occurs, it will be
most likely particular to this specific setting, this particular imap server,
this particular version of offlineimap, etc. That is why I do not see of much
purpose for me to make tests in another system. I just need to have a log that
tells me whether things went right or wrong, specially at the "critical" first
backup stage.

> Easy (but bad !) answer to that : run it with a non-existing
> command-line option that does not exist, and look in the trace.
>
> A little bit better : 'tail $(which offlineimap)', the version number is
> the argument given to init.startup.

Thank you very much for this advice. Both methods say version 4.0.16.

> Even better : you are better off with the most recent version anyway
> (the '-q' option if really cool, for instance), and version 6 is leaving

Really, I need offlineimap to do very simple and specific things. If this
version 4.0.16 can do them, and is stable, I do not want anything more and it
would be the best option for me just to use it. My problem is of documentation
as the command line options that I get from 'offlineimap -h' do not match
those of the manual or the man page.

In particular, the option '-l filename' (for a logfile) is stated in the man
page but not in the output of 'offlineimap -h'. So, I want to know to which
one I should beleive.

Anyway, what is this option '-q'?

> (Or, you could send a patch to John implementing --version as it would
> indeed be quite useful for debugging and such :->)

Indeed, but I am very far from being able to do that!

Regards, Alejandro Jakubi