no quick syncs

[Leif Walsh]

It seems this was the behavior I saw too, which I thought was a bug for the
same reason. I suggest filing a documentation bug report.
On Apr 11, 2011 6:55 PM, "dtk" <d.t.k at gmx.de> wrote:
> Excerpts from Sebastian Spaeth's message of Mon Apr 11 18:41:51 +0200
2011:
>> On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 10:33:21 +0200, dtk <d.t.k at gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>> > 'daemon mode'[0] right now, but quick syncs don't work.
>> > in my config, and the autorefresh setting works as expected, the IMAP
server
>> > being checked for new mail every 300 seconds. But if I receive new mail
in
>> > between, it isn't detected until the next 'major' check.
>>
>> That is bad.
> indeed ;)
>
>> I certainly get new mail with it (not daemon mode
>> though).
> hmm, by daemon mode you too mean specifying autorefresh so offlineimap
doesn't
> exit after the first sync? In that case I don't think I understand how
> quicksyncs behave in your case.
>
>> I set my quick setting to -1 in .offlineimaprc..., I would
>> never get new mail otherwise.
> why is that? doesn't -1 make all syncs quick ones? k, maybe not if not in
daemon
> mode ;)
>
>> Is that IMAP<->IMAP? Or IMAP<->Maildir ?
> It's IMAP<->Maildir
>
>> We would need to debug offlineimap/folder/IMAP.py:quickchanged() which
>> determines whether to skip a check. There are currently no debug outputs
>> in that function...
> k, actually I misread the documentation :/ I'm sorry :( I thought
> [quote]
> # You can tell offlineimap to do a number of quicker synchronizations
> # between full updates.
> [/quote]
> meant actually *between* full syncs, where when full syncs would take
place was
> configured via autorefresh. I expected configuring
> [config]
> autorefresh = 5
> quick = 10
> [/config]
> would full sync to take place every 5 * 60 = 300 seconds, with quick syncs
being
> triggered every 300 / 10 = 30 seconds. Stupid me *duh*
>
> Only when debugging sync() (thanks for the hint, Sebastian), I realized
that
> quick specifies how many quick syncs are performed before another full
sync is
> done, syncs independent of type still _only_ being done every
<autorefresh>
> minutes.
>
> So
> [config]
> autorefresh = 0.5
> quick = 10
> [/config]
> nets me 1 full sync, 10 quick syncs after 30 seconds each, before after
5.5
> minutes another full sync is performed. FTR -.-
>
> sorry for the false alarm :/
> dtk
>
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