Offlineimap erroneously deletes 10,000 emails
Nicolas Sebrecht
nicolas.s-dev at laposte.net
Thu May 19 22:57:57 BST 2011
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 09:41:18PM +0100, seanh wrote:
>
> > also sprach seanh <snhmnd at gmail.com> [2011.05.19.1944 +0200]:
> > > Definitely not. Lavabit doesn't do that, and the emails are still now in
> > > the folder on the lavabit IMAP server.
> >
> > Then their UIDs changed for whatever reason. Make a backup and find
> > out whether offlineimap redownloads the messages after deleting
> > them.
>
> I ran offlineimap again and it deleted ~2500 messages from the IMAP
> server. The same ~2500 that it wrongly deleted from the local maildir
> before I killed it last time.
Can you give a log from this IMAP session?
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Nicolas Sebrecht
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