NAME
mailsync - Synchronize IMAP mailboxes
SYNOPSIS
mailsync [options] channel
or
mailsync [options] store
or
mailsync [options] channel store
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the mailsync command.
mailsync is a way of keeping a collection of mailboxes synchronized.
The mailboxes may be on the local filesystem or on an IMAP server.
There are three invocations of mailsync:
The first will synchronize two sets of mailboxes - in mailsync referred
to as "stores".
The second form will list the contents of a store. It’s usage is
recommended before synchronizing two stores to check whether mailsync
is seeing what you are expecting it to see.
The third form will show you what has changed in a store since the last
sync.
OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below.
-f file
Use alternate config file.
-n Don’t delete messages when synchronizing.
-D Delete any empty mailboxes after synchronizing..
-m Show from, subject, etc. of messages that are killed or moved
when synchronzing.
-M Also show message-ids (turns on -m).
-s Says what would be done without doing it (turns on -n).
Attention: this will change the "Seen" flag of emails and will
create new, empty mailboxes in order to be able to compare them.
-v Show IMAP chatter.
-vb Show warning about braindammaged message ids
-vw Show warnings
-vp Show RFC 822 mail parsing errors
-h Show help.
-d Show debug info. -di Debug/log IMAP protocol telemetry. -dc
Debug config.
-t mid Use mailsync with specified message-id algorithm. Currently you
have the choice between md5 and msgid (default). msgid uses the
Message-ID in the mail header to identify a message. md5
calculates a MD5 hash from the "From", "To", "Subject", "Date"
and "Message-ID" headers and uses that as message identifier.
If you use mailclients and servers that allow empty Message-IDs
(f.ex. in mail drafts) then you should use the md5 algorithm.
SEE ALSO
There is more documentation in /usr/share/doc/mailsync , and in
/usr/share/doc/libc-clientxxxxxx/internal.txt
AUTHOR
Originally written by Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@debian.org> for the
Debian GNU/Linux system. Updates by T. Pospisek
<tpo_deb@sourcepole.ch>.
February 15, 2003