Re: does offlineimap do a one way sync or a full download?

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Shankar Gopalakrishnan wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I've been a fan of offlineimap for almost two years, but am facing a bit
> of a dilemma.  My system synchronises between two external IMAP servers
> and a local Dovecot IMAP server that holds the mails.  Due to filesystem
> corruption, my .offlineimap directory was damaged and I've had to delete
> it.  The mailstore and Dovecot were on a different partition so there
> was no damage to them.  The two stores are essentially identical except
> for a difference of some 100 odd emails that have arrived in the interim
> (the store as a whole contains around 7000).  My question is this: if I
> run offlineimap now between the mailstores, will it sync them and only
> download the new messages, or will it download the entire external store
> and duplicate the messages?

I would expect you to see duplicate messages in that scenario, but I'm
not completely positive.

-- John

> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Shankar Gopalakrishnan
> 
> 
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