<DKIM> Mails deleted when restarted after aborting

[Nicolas Sebrecht]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 03:06:10PM +0200, Martin Geisler wrote:
>    Hi all,
>    I've begun the long processo of pumping my mails from a local IMAP
>    server to Gmail and OfflineIMAP seems to be a great tool for this.
>    There are various errors, however, and they make OfflineIMAP abort with
>    tracebacks. When I restart it, it seems to pick of from there it was.
>    It normally starts by deleting some mails from the remote (Gmail) end:
>    Folder INBOX [acc: mrtn]:
>    Â Deleting 43 messages
>    (25671:25704,25706:25707,26388,26392,26481,26589:26590,26772,26795) in
>    MappedIMAP[INBOX]
>    I hope this is normal? Will the mails be re-uploaded after the restart?
>    I'm a little puzzled why it would decide to delete and then (hopefully)
>    upload the mails again?

OfflineIMAP does a 3-way merge with local, remote and the cache. If the
cache is not up-to-date, OfflineIMAP does the right things. I'm not
aware of problems in this area outside of maxage (see the blog for more
info about that).

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Nicolas Sebrecht