Re: redownloaded many gigs of mail
Nicolas Sebrecht <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.mail.imap.offlineimap.general |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 08:53:05PM +0200, Sandra Snan wrote:
> hey again
Hi,
> some cert or something changed, I dunno and it redownloaded a million
> email and it took 4 gigs and it took around two days for notmuch to
> index it all
Re-download might happen if offlineimap can't find the cache
("metadatadir"), if it has been deleted or the account name in the
'accounts' setting has been changed.
> also I don't like that the emails are
> permanently in the inbox on the server. I want them to be safe, sure,
> but they don't have to be in the inbox.
This depends on what you mean by "safe". If it's about having backups,
see
http://www.offlineimap.org/documentation.html#make-backups-of-a-mailbox
Usually, local deletions are propagated on the remote server so if you
remove emails locally they are deleted on the server too.
> I guess I don't really understand how offlineimap works
It makes copy of the emails via IMAP.
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Nicolas Sebrecht
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