Fresh copy of large maildir

Leon Bogaert leon at tim-online.nl
Wed Jul 6 19:54:27 BST 2011


On wo, 2011-07-06 at 03:13 -0400, Ethan Glasser-Camp wrote:
> On 07/05/2011 04:11 PM, Christoph Höger wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have some fairly large maildirs now (> 2GB) and running offlineimap 
> > plainly on them is quite ... slow.
> >
> > So here's my question:
> >
> > 1. Is there some optimization for such a task (e.g. compressing bulks 
> > of messages) already present or would that be a completely new work?
> 
> IDLE support should really help with this.  Scanning will still be slow, 
> but with proper and robust IDLE support, we won't need to scan as often 
> (or ever?).  You'd also get new messages much quicker.
> 
> Ethan
> 

I don't know if it's true but I think I once saw an option to only
check/sync files of a certain age. I believe the parameter is called
"maxage".

Leon




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