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authorGuilhem Moulin <guilhem@fripost.org>2015-07-26 19:55:10 +0200
committerGuilhem Moulin <guilhem@fripost.org>2015-07-26 19:55:10 +0200
commit9628c1f5c3700b8152de93978c60d978347b16ad (patch)
treed8085e52329f0da0f5cb6dd17da9b2e7653766ed /imapsync.1
parentb198cebd245942349d972a7958407b0d332da639 (diff)
parent8993a9dcb8dedb43e8f8c1b86e1f193da29bcf64 (diff)
Merge branch 'master' into debian
Diffstat (limited to 'imapsync.1')
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/imapsync.1 b/imapsync.1
index f4f6965..8c22222 100644
--- a/imapsync.1
+++ b/imapsync.1
@@ -10,8 +10,7 @@ imapsync \- IMAP-to-IMAP synchronization program for QRESYNC-capable servers
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
.B imapsync\fR performs stateful synchronization between two IMAP4rev1
-servers, then (unless the flag \fB\-\-oneshot\fR is set) keeps both
-connection open and wait for new changes to arrive.
+servers.
Such synchronization is made possible by the QRESYNC extension from
[RFC7162]; for convenience reasons support for LIST\-EXTENDED [RFC5258],
LIST\-STATUS [RFC5819] and UIDPLUS [RFC4315] is also required.
@@ -77,15 +76,6 @@ providing extra arguments limits the synchronization to the given
\fIMAILBOX\fRes only.
.PP
-In its default mode (unless the flag \fB\-\-oneshot\fR or
-\fB\-\-repair\fR is set), \fBimapsync\fR does not exit once all
-mailboxes have been synchronized. Instead, it keeps both connection
-open and uses the NOTIFY command from [RFC5465] to be notified of new
-changes (on any mailbox) as soon as they arrive. If no update is sent
-in 15 minutes, a NOOP command is issued in order not to trigger the
-servers' inactivity timeout and be logged out.
-
-.PP
If the synchronization was interrupted during a previous run while some
messages were being replicated (but before the UIDNEXT or HIGHESTMODSEQ
values have been updated), \fBimapsync\fR performs a \(lqfull
@@ -104,13 +94,6 @@ Specify an alternate configuration file. Relative paths start from
environment variable is unset.
.TP
-.B \-1\fR, \fB\-\-oneshot\fR
-Exit as soon as all mailboxes are synchronized, instead of passively
-waiting for updates from the open connections.
-Using \fB\-\-oneshot\fR removes the requirement that IMAP servers must
-advertise support the NOTIFY extension [RFC5465].
-
-.TP
.B \-\-repair
List the database anomalies and try to repair them.
This is done by performing a so\-called \(lqfull synchronization\(rq,