Gmail folders always deleted/re-downloaded NOT synced?

Eygene Ryabinkin rea at codelabs.ru
Sun Jun 1 16:03:58 UTC 2014


Sun, Jun 01, 2014 at 10:06:21AM -0500, Tom Marble wrote:
> I am trying to prepare to move to notmuch and have started by configuring
> offlineimap for my Gmail account
> 
> As I have many folders and tons of e-mail I want to verify that the synchronization
> is working with one minor folder (before trying to download everything).
> 
> Every time I run offlineimap on this one (rarely changing) folder it insists on deleting
> all the mails and redownloading them:
> 
> tmarble at ficelle 114 :) offlineimap
> OfflineIMAP 6.5.5
>   Licensed under the GNU GPL v2+ (v2 or any later version)
> Account sync tmarble at info9.net:
>  *** Processing account tmarble at info9.net
>  Establishing connection to imap.gmail.com:993
> Folder Gmail/Associations/Breck [acc: tmarble at info9.net]:
>  Syncing Gmail/Associations/Breck: Gmail -> Maildir
>  Deleting 140 messages (1:140) in Maildir[Gmail.Associations.Breck]
> Folder [Gmail]/Associations/Breck [acc: tmarble at info9.net]:
>  Syncing [Gmail]/Associations/Breck: Gmail -> Maildir
>  Copy message 1 (1 of 140) remote-info9.net:[Gmail]/Associations/Breck -> local-info9.net
>  Copy message 2 (2 of 140) remote-info9.net:[Gmail]/Associations/Breck -> local-info9.net
> ...
>  Copy message 139 (139 of 140) remote-info9.net:[Gmail]/Associations/Breck -> local-info9.net
>  Copy message 140 (140 of 140) remote-info9.net:[Gmail]/Associations/Breck -> local-info9.net
> Account sync tmarble at info9.net:
>  *** Finished account 'tmarble at info9.net' in 0:50
> tmarble at ficelle 115 :)
> 
> The remote config section has:
> realdelete = no
> maxage = 90
> readonly = true
> quick = -1
> 
> How can I ensure it just syncs?

Can you show the full configuration (excluding usernames/passwords) that I will
be able to reproduce your problem?

Thanks!
-- 
rea



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