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| author | Guilhem Moulin <guilhem@fripost.org> | 2015-07-26 19:52:52 +0200 |
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| committer | Guilhem Moulin <guilhem@fripost.org> | 2015-07-26 19:52:52 +0200 |
| commit | 8993a9dcb8dedb43e8f8c1b86e1f193da29bcf64 (patch) | |
| tree | 58afde8a409e4e90acdfc319e9b844708c227a90 /imapsync.1 | |
| parent | 9784997b21a30a2c5a8db3742a42faebad9e169d (diff) | |
Make --oneshot the default mode and disable watch mode.
Due to multiple bugs in dovecot 2.13 and 2.18's implementation of the
NOTIFY extension [RFC5465]:
http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2015-July/101473.html
http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2015-July/101474.html
http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2015-July/101514.html
Diffstat (limited to 'imapsync.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | imapsync.1 | 19 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 18 deletions
@@ -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, |