Bug#609845: huge memory leak when syncing large mailboxes

[Gilles LAMIRAL]

Hello Michael,

> As the memory usage constantly grew before imapsync getting killed, I assumed it
> was a mem-leak. I'm sorry if this assumption was wrong.

I said maybe. Your tries with --maxsize will tell us.

> Given your comments, this means I probably have an email which is bigger than 60Mb.

Yes. An other thing is that --ssl* can bring issues too.
Use --tls* instead or nothing if possible.

Recent imapsync releases prints info about memory usage but do not
solve the issue. I think I'll add a ligne about the biggest message
in each folder. Imapsync is still free DWTF software but not
gratis from the homepage.

> As you say this is an issue in Mail:IMAPClient, I guess this bug should be
> re-assigned to libmail-imapclient-perl?

A ticket exists already.

> Or can imapsync workaround this limitation in Mail:IMAPClient somehow?

I try but I partially succeeded. I went to decrease 17 to 4 times but I got errors
and I gave up. I need to read carefully the IMAP RFC before going on again.

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