Sync Problems

[Matt Black]

Hi Eygene, thanks for your reply.

The clearest explanation of "migration" would be to backup all my email 
from the current provider (using the config I had set up a few months 
ago) and then synchronise that to Gmail - preloading Gmail with perhaps 
90 days of email.

My config:

[general]
accounts = imap, gmail
ui = ttyui

[Account imap]
localrepository = Abigail
remoterepository = Gandi

[Account gmail]
localrepository = Abigail
remoterepository = Gmail
maxage = 90

[Repository Abigail]
type = Maildir
localfolders = ~/Maildir

[Repository Gandi]
type = IMAP
ssl = yes
remotehost = mail.gandi.net
remoteuser =
remotepass =
folderfilter = lambda foldername: foldername in ['INBOX', 'Sent']
maxconnections = 2

[Repository Gmail]
type = IMAP
ssl = yes
remotehost = imap.gmail.com
remoteuser =
remotepass =
folderfilter = lambda foldername: foldername in ['INBOX', 
'[Gmail]/Sent']
nametrans = lambda foldername: foldername.replace("[Gmail]/", "")
maxconnections = 3

I have a feeling that understanding the implications of deleting the 
.offlineimap directory (referred to as .offlineimaprc directory below!) 
might help me here.

Thanks again.

On 03.10.2012 00:55, Eygene Ryabinkin wrote:
> Matt, good day.
>
> Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 10:47:48PM +1000, Matt Black wrote:
>> Offlineimap has apparently been running in fine condition for me for 
>> a
>> few months, but now as I'm trying to migrate from one IMAP provider 
>> over
>> to gmail, I'm seeing all kinds of unexplained things. I'm hoping 
>> someone
>> can enlighten me please?
>
> Could you please be more specific: what does the "migration" means?
> You're just using your new IMAP account or you had managed to copy
> the mail from the previous one to GMail?
>
>> * I deleted my .offlineimaprc folder as part of a test - now on 
>> every
>> sync all my email is pushed back upto my old provider. I have 6 
>> copies
>> of each email in that account at present :/ (I only deleted
>> .offlineimaprc once).
>>
>> * I fired up Mutt and deleted some local mails, and then ran
>> offlineimap. It reported the following:
>>
>> "Deleting 87 messages (16754, ....., 16840) in Maildir[.foldername]"
>>
>> Why does it report it deleted mails in my local folder, when I 
>> expect
>> it to delete on the remote host?
>
> Can we have a look at your configuration (without passwords and other
> sensitive stuff, if any)?