mailsync - Synchronize IMAP mailboxes
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Description
mailsync is a command line tool to keep collections of mailboxes synchronized. Mailboxes can reside on
the local filesystem or on an IMAP server.
mailsync can be invoked in three ways:
mailsyncchannel Synchronizes two sets of mailboxes. In c-client taxonomy, a library on which
mailsync relies to implement mailbox access, mailboxes are referred to as
"stores".
mailsyncstore Lists the contents of a store. It's recommended to execture this command before
synchronizing two stores to check whether mailsync is seeing what you are
expecting it to see.
mailsyncchannelstore Lists what has changed in a store since the last sync.
Name
mailsync - Synchronize IMAP mailboxes
Options
-ffile Use alternative 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.
-tmid_type
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.txtSynopsis
mailsync [options] channelmailsync [options] storemailsync [options] channelstore
