Confused with cli option -f

[Esther Carillo]

Hello group,

I'm new to the command line and tools like offlineimap. I am using it to
sync multiple accounts from cron. I would like it to only sync Inbox(es)
every 10mins and a full sync (sent, draft, trash, etc.) every hour.

The two commands I have are:

offlineimap -o -u quiet
offlineimap -o -f mygmail,myyahoo -u quiet

>From my .offlineimaprc:

[general]
accounts = mygmail,myyahoo
maxsyncaccounts = 20
ui = ttyui
pythonfile=/home/john/bin/offlineimap-helpers.py
socktimeout = 120

[Account mygmail]
localrepository = mygmail_local
remoterepository = mygmail_remote
autorefresh = 4
quick=2

[Account myyahoo]
localrepository = myyahoo_local
remoterepository = myyahoo_remote
autorefresh = 4
quick=2

[Repository mygmail_local]
type = Maildir
localfolders = /home/john/Mail/mygmail
nametrans = localtransfolder_mygmail

[Repository myyahoo_local]
type = Maildir
localfolders = /home/john/Mail/myyahoo
nametrans = localtransfolder_myyahoo

[Repository mygmail_remote]
type = IMAP
remotehost = imap.googlemail.com
remoteuser = mygmail at gmail.com
remotepass = password
nametrans = oimaptransfolder_mygmail
ssl = yes

[Repository myyahoo_remote]
type = IMAP
remotehost = imap.mail.yahoo.com
remoteuser = myyahoo at yahoo.com
remotepass = password
nametrans = oimaptransfolder_myyahoo


My pythonfile does this, I copied most of this from an online guide so
not sure what it all does:

def oimaptransfolder_mygmail(foldername):
    if(foldername == "INBOX"):
        retval = "mygmail"
    else:
        retval = "mygmail." + foldername
    retval = re.sub("/", ".", retval)
    return retval
    
def localtransfolder_mygmail(foldername):
    if(foldername == "mygmail"):
        retval = "INBOX"
    else:
        # remove leading 'acc1.'
        retval = re.sub("mygmail\.", "", foldername)
    retval = re.sub("\.", "/", retval)
    return retval

def oimaptransfolder_myyahoo(foldername):
    if(foldername == "INBOX"):
        retval = "myyahoo"
    else:
        retval = "myyahoo." + foldername
    retval = re.sub("/", ".", retval)
    return retval
    
def localtransfolder_myyahoo(foldername):
    if(foldername == "myyahoo"):
        retval = "INBOX"
    else:
        # remove leading 'acc1.'
        retval = re.sub("myyahoo\.", "", foldername)
    retval = re.sub("\.", "/", retval)
    return retval


>From the documentation for -f option it says:

Only sync the specified folders.  The foldernames are the untranslated
foldernames.  This command-line option  overrides any folderfilter and
folderincludes options in the configuration file.

But I don't know what 'untranslated foldernames' are, the combinations I
have used all don't seem to sync only the Inbox and only the account I
want. Say I try to sync only gmail I try:

offlineimap -o -f mygmail

But the output still seems to suggest both are sync'd:

 OfflineIMAP 6.3.4
Copyright 2002-2011 John Goerzen & contributors.
Licensed under the GNU GPL v2+ (v2 or any later version).

Account sync myyahoo:
 ***** Processing account myyahoo
 Copying folder structure from IMAP to Maildir
 Establishing connection to imap.mail.yahoo.com:993.
Account sync mygmail:
 ***** Processing account mygmail
 Copying folder structure from IMAP to Maildir
 Establishing connection to imap.googlemail.com:993.
Account sync myyahoo:
 ***** Finished processing account myyahoo
Account sync mygmail:
 ***** Finished processing account mygmail


Apologies for the long post, I wanted to make sure you have everything
required to help me out.

Esther.