Re: backup and synchronize to fastmail

[Alejandro Jakubi <jakubi@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 16 May 2008, Vincent Beffara wrote:

> > Thank you very much for this advice. Both methods say version 4.0.16.
>
> That's indeed pretty old.

As said in my first message to this list, the departmental cluster is
currently operating with Fedora Core 6 (since November of 2007 or so) and
offline 4.0.16 seems to be the version distributed with FC6.

> Chances are that you would actually find version 5.99.x more stable than=20
> version 4.0.x ... (unless you are using mac os x, that is, but from what=20

It would be also an issue of dependences. In case that a newer version were
unavoidable to do what I need, it would be much better that the system
manager installs whatever is needed from a FC6 rpm repository.

But yet I do not have any firm reason to make such a request to the system 
manager.
What I need first is information on offlineimap 4.0.16. In particular whether
it can produce a log file.

> Just to repeat myself : run it on a test system and see what happens,=20
> nothing beats that ...=20

I do not have a test system with FC6, offlineimap 4.0.16, an imap server and so 
on.

> Means "quick". And it really means it, for huge mailboxes it can mean=20
> going from minutes to seconds on a given sync, plus it's nicer on the=20
> network and the server. The archives of this list contain the result of=20
> a performance test if you are interested.

Interesting but not a priority. As I will leave offlineimap working in the
background all the time at the departmental cluster, if it takes a minute or a
second to do its job, it would be almost the same for me.

Regards, Alejandro Jakubi