MAILSYNC(1)
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). 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 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>.