Re: HUGE list of folders

[Ajeet <asgrewal@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hey David,

Thanks for the response. I tried this and unfortunately it did not work.
I think it is first building the list of all the mailboxes, and then
trying to filter them out. It is this that takes most of the time. I
have pasted debug IMAP code below. I get a line like this for every
file, and there are way too many of those. 

Is there some way to skip this list creation entirely?

// DEBUG OUTPUT

  DEBUG[imap]:   16:32.76   matched r'\* (?P<type>[A-Z-]+)( (?P<data>.*))?' => 
('LIST', ' (\\NoInferiors \\Marked) "/" 
nl-home/packages/carmel-3.0/shared/ilinenostream.hpp', '(\\NoInferiors 
\\Marked) "/" nl-home/packages/carmel-3.0/shared/ilinenostream.hpp')

// END DEBUG OUTPUT



On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:53:16 -0700, David L. Emerson wrote:
> Hi Ajeet,
> 
> Wow, that sounds like a pretty lame imap server!
> 
> At any rate, it ought to be possible to overcome. I'll paste some 
> snippets from my config files:
> 
> 
> snippets from ~/.offlineimaprc:
> 
> [general]
> accounts = david1, etc....
> pythonfile = /home/david/.offlineimap/david-scripts.py
> 
> [Account david1]
> localrepository = local-david1
> remoterepository = remote-david1
> 
> [Repository remote-david1]
> folderfilter = exclude_junk_folders
> foldersort = mycmp
> 
> # note you can use foldersort to check the important folder(s) first
> 
> 
> snippets from /home/david/.offlineimap/david-scripts.py:
> 
> junk_re = re.compile('^junk ', re.IGNORECASE)
> 
> def exclude_junk_folders (fn):
>       return not junk_re.match(fn)
> 
> cmpdict = {}
> defaulval = 1   # prioritized values start at 0 and go down
> 
> def mycmp(x, y):
>       if cmpdict=={}: return cmp(x,y)
>       if x in cmpdict: xp=cmpdict[x]
>       else: xp=1
>       if y in cmpdict: yp=cmpdict[y]
>       else: yp=1
>       if (xp<yp): return -1
>       elif (xp>yp): return +1
>       return cmp (x,y)
> 
> cmpdict['folder_A']=0
> cmpdict['folder_B']=-1
> 
> 
> Good luck!
> ~David.
> 
> 
> On Tuesday 23 September 2008 10:16 pm, Ajeet wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> > 
> > My imap server unfortunately lists all the files / folders in the home
> > directory as an IMAP folder (I have symlinks to all sorts of package 
> folders) .
> > So while syncing, offlineimap takes a long time just to get the one 
> folder that
> > I really want to sync. This happens even if I specify the -f option. 
> Is there
> > someway to overcome this?
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > -- 
> > Regards,
> > Ajeet
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 

-- 
Regards,
Ajeet