On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 07:59:13 +0200 Ricardo Mones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 15:09:50 +0800 > Clayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 18:31:23 +0200 > > Ricardo Mones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:03:03 +0000 > > > Debian BTS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > I recently upgraded from sylpheed, and vanilla > > > > sylpheed/unison-gtk handle synchronization just fine. > > > > > > > > Note that the Inbox is not the only mail folder affected, it is > > > > just where I feel the most pain. > > > > > > Which directory is the 'user directory' you're referring to? > > > your $HOME? $HOME/.claws-mail? $HOME/Mail (or equivalent)? > > > Are you syncing .* files in that dir? > > > > $HOME, all of it. unison syncs everything that isn't specifically > > excluded, so all .* files are being synced. I have been doing this > > for years, unison has worked really well for me up until this > > moment. > > That's strange, have you upgraded unison recently? > Claws Mail has not changed the way it deals with this files AFAIK. I don't recall a recent unison update. I am no expert on apt/dpkg, but the following would seem to indicate that the last time anything significant happened with unison was in February: clayton:/var/lib/dpkg/info# ll unison* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2006-11-02 21:35 unison2.9.1-gtk.list -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 160 2006-02-07 07:42 unison2.9.1-gtk.postrm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 547 2007-04-15 15:26 unison-gtk.list -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 640 2007-02-16 05:40 unison-gtk.md5sums -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 397 2007-02-16 05:40 unison-gtk.postinst -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 160 2007-02-16 05:40 unison-gtk.postrm -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 288 2007-02-16 05:40 unison-gtk.preinst -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 124 2007-02-16 05:40 unison-gtk.prerm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 550 2007-04-15 15:26 unison.list -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 684 2007-02-16 05:40 unison.md5sums -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 401 2007-02-16 05:40 unison.postinst -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 276 2007-02-16 05:40 unison.preinst -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 315 2007-02-16 05:40 unison.prerm Since then unison and sylpheed coexisted quite peacefully. > > > Are you preserving timestamps when syncing? > > > > Good question. unison docs are kind of murky on the subject, but > > this experiment in my ~/Mail/inbox/ would indicate timestamps are > > being preserved: > > > > Before sync: > > -rw-r--r-- 1 ckoen ckoen 10 2007-07-03 22:41 .mh_sequences > > -rw------- 1 ckoen ckoen 21166 2007-06-23 19:19 .sylpheed_cache > > -rw------- 1 ckoen ckoen 20522 2007-07-03 > > 22:41 .sylpheed_claws_cache -rw------- 1 ckoen ckoen 556 > > 2007-07-03 22:41 .sylpheed_mark -rwx------ 1 ckoen ckoen 5000 > > 2006-09-03 14:58 .xmhcache > > > > After sync: > > -rw-r--r-- 1 ckoen ckoen 24 2007-07-04 14:53 .mh_sequences > > -rw------- 1 ckoen ckoen 21166 2007-06-23 19:19 .sylpheed_cache > > -rw------- 1 ckoen ckoen 20493 2007-07-04 > > 14:53 .sylpheed_claws_cache -rw------- 1 ckoen ckoen 556 > > 2007-07-04 14:53 .sylpheed_mark -rwx------ 1 ckoen ckoen 5000 > > 2006-09-03 14:58 .xmhcache > > > > (I shut down claws-mail just before 15:00....) > > Mmm, let me picture your scenario more detailed, so you: > 1) download mail in host A > 2) operate with mail in A > 3) then manually? periodically? sync A -> host B > 4) open mail in host B and flags are gone? > 5) download mail in host B? only modify flags in B? > 6) sync back changes in B -> host A > 7) go to A and flags are gone? > > Is that picture correct? I'm missing something? That is exactly the picture. Syncs are always manual, when I move from one host to the other. > > BTW, I have been thinking that this should really be considered a > > data loss kind of bug. I have a couple of large mail folders where > > the color coding was quite important to me. I did not discover that > > syncing was going to blow away all my color coding until my first > > sync quite some number of days after installing claws-mail. At this > > point the only way to maybe get my color coding back is to restore > > from my last backup, which of course puts intervening e-mails at > > risk of loss. Or revert to sylpheed and a backup from about that > > era, which puts even more e-mails at risk. > > Well, I'd bet it's a unison problem, which is the one who's moving > the files, but still not sure of understanding where the problem can > be. Except, as far as I can tell, the current unison very recently worked with sylpheed, not to mention that it works with *all* of my other applications. Clayton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
