MAILSYNC(1)MAILSYNC(1)NAMEmailsync - Synchronize IMAP mailboxes
SYNOPSISmailsync [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 recom‐
mended 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 would would be done without doing it (turns on -n). Atten‐
tion: 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 calcu‐
lates 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@source‐
pole.ch>.
February 15, 2003 MAILSYNC(1)
