<DKIM> Why is OfflineIMAP working "in reverse"?

[Nicolas Sebrecht]

On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 11:05:03AM -0700, Tom Scott wrote:

>    Noticing some weird log messages coming out of `offlineimap` when I
>    make my periodic sync, after I spent all night syncing all my messages
>    down from Gmail. Here's an example of one of them:
>        Folder [Gmail]/All Mail [acc: Psychedelica]:
>         Copy message -46661 (597 of 47253) Filesystem:[Gmail].All Mail ->
>    Google
>    It seems like the program is working "in reverse" and I'm not sure how
>    that's going to affect my email. So far, I haven't seen any crazy
>    issues in my inboxes (been watching on Mailbox.app and Gmail very
>    closely), but it is a little unnerving. Anyone have some insight as to
>    what is going on here?

What do you mean by "reverse"? With respect to what?


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Nicolas Sebrecht