Re: Can imap syncs be done without INTERNALDATE?

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 01:28:29PM -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote:
> I am having issues linked the amount of overhead imap traffic that offlineimap
> generates during each big folder sync.
> 
> The dev guy I talked to said that I shouldn't be sending all that
> INTERNALDATE traffic and should be able to sync without asking for that
> (which apparently doubles the amount of traffic generated). He says other
> programs that do 2 way imap syncs do so without INTERNALDATE.
> 
> So, what about offlineimap, can that be removed, or does it fulfill an
> important purpose?

IIRC there is something in the message that can be edited without
modifying INTERNALDATE.  It's been a while, though, and the RFC
contradicts that.  So maybe this is just bogus.

In any case, sounds like you probably want the quick sync feature;
quick syncs transfer a whole lot less data...

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery