problem upgrading from offlineimap 6.3.4 to 6.6.1

[Nicolas Sebrecht]

On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 01:49:29PM +0200, Ilias Tsitsimpis wrote:

> IIRC the old algo was using the local folder name in order to compute
> the FMD5. So, it is relatively easy to check if the current FMD5 matches
> that of the local folder name and only then change it to the new one.
> This will indeed provide extra insurance against potential UID
> conflicts, but at the same time limit the patch to only those cases
> where one needs to upgrade from a version older than v6.3.5. I still
> cannot find another usage for the above patch (i.e., other cases where
> FMD5 has been modified and needs fixing), so, if you like, we may go
> that way (and change the name of the flag to something like
> --migrate-fmd5-using-nametrans).

That's fine for me. If any new use case is discovered, updating your
feature or introduce yet another one should be easy, BTW.

> Indeed, the edge-case will occur if the user happens to move a message
> since the previous sync. But as rare as this may seems, the results are
> very bad (UID conflicts) and users are very sensitive with their emails.
> I understand that there is no algorithm that will work for everyone,
> hence, we will make sure that they have read the blog-post and made a
> backup.

Good!

> I will update the patch and send a pull request (hopefully by the weekend).

Thank you for working on this Ilias!

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Nicolas Sebrecht