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The Big Rewrite. too many change to list them all. as opposed to earlier threats, BerkDB was not entirely dropped; i suppose the isync 0.7 -> 0.8 change had a reason, so i added an alternative UID storage scheme. note that BDB 4.0 is not sufficient, as the db->open function changed in an incompatible way ... i updated the debian packaging except for a changelog entry. note that i removed the upgrade blurb, as upstream now has a smooth upgrade path down to at least isync 0.4.
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isync/mbsync - free (GPL) mailbox synchronization program
- took over maintenance - moved to sourceforge - reorganized cvs structure
2002-12-28 03:05:43 +00:00
http://isync.sf.net/
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The Big Rewrite. too many change to list them all. as opposed to earlier threats, BerkDB was not entirely dropped; i suppose the isync 0.7 -> 0.8 change had a reason, so i added an alternative UID storage scheme. note that BDB 4.0 is not sufficient, as the db->open function changed in an incompatible way ... i updated the debian packaging except for a changelog entry. note that i removed the upgrade blurb, as upstream now has a smooth upgrade path down to at least isync 0.4.
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See AUTHORS for contact information.
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The Big Rewrite. too many change to list them all. as opposed to earlier threats, BerkDB was not entirely dropped; i suppose the isync 0.7 -> 0.8 change had a reason, so i added an alternative UID storage scheme. note that BDB 4.0 is not sufficient, as the db->open function changed in an incompatible way ... i updated the debian packaging except for a changelog entry. note that i removed the upgrade blurb, as upstream now has a smooth upgrade path down to at least isync 0.4.
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``mbsync'' is a command line application which synchronizes mailboxes;
currently Maildir and IMAP4 mailboxes are supported. New messages, message
deletions and flag changes can be propagated both ways.
``mbsync'' is suitable for use in IMAP-disconnected mode.
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mention safety of concurrent access; wording improvements
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Synchronization is based on unique message identifiers (UIDs), so
no identification conflicts can occur (unlike with some other mail
The Big Rewrite. too many change to list them all. as opposed to earlier threats, BerkDB was not entirely dropped; i suppose the isync 0.7 -> 0.8 change had a reason, so i added an alternative UID storage scheme. note that BDB 4.0 is not sufficient, as the db->open function changed in an incompatible way ... i updated the debian packaging except for a changelog entry. note that i removed the upgrade blurb, as upstream now has a smooth upgrade path down to at least isync 0.4.
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synchronizers).
Synchronization state is kept in one local text file per mailbox pair;
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these files are protected against concurrent ``mbsync'' processes.
Mailboxes can be safely modified while ``mbsync'' operates.
Multiple replicas of each mailbox can be maintained.
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The Big Rewrite. too many change to list them all. as opposed to earlier threats, BerkDB was not entirely dropped; i suppose the isync 0.7 -> 0.8 change had a reason, so i added an alternative UID storage scheme. note that BDB 4.0 is not sufficient, as the db->open function changed in an incompatible way ... i updated the debian packaging except for a changelog entry. note that i removed the upgrade blurb, as upstream now has a smooth upgrade path down to at least isync 0.4.
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isync is the project name, while mbsync is the current executable name; this
change was necessary because of massive changes in the user interface. An
isync executable still exists; it is a compatibility wrapper around mbsync.
* Features
* Fine-grained selection of synchronization operations to perform
* Synchronizes single mailboxes or entire mailbox collections
* Partial mirrors possible: keep only the latest messages locally
* Trash functionality: backup messages before removing them
* IMAP features:
less technical info no point in listing IMAP extensions in the README
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* Supports TLS/SSL via imaps: (port 993) and STARTTLS
* Supports SASL for authentication
pre-release doc updates
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* Pipelining for maximum speed
fixes to compile cleanly under Solaris 2.7
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* Compatibility
The Big Rewrite. too many change to list them all. as opposed to earlier threats, BerkDB was not entirely dropped; i suppose the isync 0.7 -> 0.8 change had a reason, so i added an alternative UID storage scheme. note that BDB 4.0 is not sufficient, as the db->open function changed in an incompatible way ... i updated the debian packaging except for a changelog entry. note that i removed the upgrade blurb, as upstream now has a smooth upgrade path down to at least isync 0.4.
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isync should work fairly well with any IMAP4 compliant server;
language fix
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servers that support the UIDPLUS and LITERAL+ extensions are most
efficient.
fixes to compile cleanly under Solaris 2.7
2000-12-21 06:51:14 +00:00
The Big Rewrite. too many change to list them all. as opposed to earlier threats, BerkDB was not entirely dropped; i suppose the isync 0.7 -> 0.8 change had a reason, so i added an alternative UID storage scheme. note that BDB 4.0 is not sufficient, as the db->open function changed in an incompatible way ... i updated the debian packaging except for a changelog entry. note that i removed the upgrade blurb, as upstream now has a smooth upgrade path down to at least isync 0.4.
2004-03-27 16:07:20 +00:00
Courier 1.4.3 is known to be buggy, version 1.7.3 works fine.
fixes to compile cleanly under Solaris 2.7
2000-12-21 06:51:14 +00:00
update c-client compatibility
2004-09-15 09:33:02 +00:00
c-client (UW-IMAP, Pine) is mostly fine, but versions less than 2004a.352
tend to change UIDVALIDITY pretty often when used with unix/mbox mailboxes,
making isync refuse synchronization.
pre-release doc updates
2013-12-08 21:29:15 +00:00
M$ Exchange (up to 2010 at least) occasionally exposes the same problem.
The Big Rewrite. too many change to list them all. as opposed to earlier threats, BerkDB was not entirely dropped; i suppose the isync 0.7 -> 0.8 change had a reason, so i added an alternative UID storage scheme. note that BDB 4.0 is not sufficient, as the db->open function changed in an incompatible way ... i updated the debian packaging except for a changelog entry. note that i removed the upgrade blurb, as upstream now has a smooth upgrade path down to at least isync 0.4.
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The "cure" is to simply copy the new UIDVALIDITY from the affected
mailbox to mbsync's state file. This is a Bad Hack (TM), but it works -
use at your own risk (if the UIDVALIDITY change was genuine, this will
delete all messages in the affected mailbox - not that this ever
happened to me).
added generic IMAP list parser and rewrote imap_exec() to handle arbitrary data instead of hardcoded
2000-12-21 10:24:53 +00:00
The Big Rewrite. too many change to list them all. as opposed to earlier threats, BerkDB was not entirely dropped; i suppose the isync 0.7 -> 0.8 change had a reason, so i added an alternative UID storage scheme. note that BDB 4.0 is not sufficient, as the db->open function changed in an incompatible way ... i updated the debian packaging except for a changelog entry. note that i removed the upgrade blurb, as upstream now has a smooth upgrade path down to at least isync 0.4.
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* Platforms
added generic IMAP list parser and rewrote imap_exec() to handle arbitrary data instead of hardcoded
2000-12-21 10:24:53 +00:00
The Big Rewrite. too many change to list them all. as opposed to earlier threats, BerkDB was not entirely dropped; i suppose the isync 0.7 -> 0.8 change had a reason, so i added an alternative UID storage scheme. note that BDB 4.0 is not sufficient, as the db->open function changed in an incompatible way ... i updated the debian packaging except for a changelog entry. note that i removed the upgrade blurb, as upstream now has a smooth upgrade path down to at least isync 0.4.
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At some point, ``isync'' has successfully run on:
minor updates
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Linux, Solaris 2.7, OpenBSD 2.8, FreeBSD 4.3.
fixes to compile cleanly under Solaris 2.7
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* Requirements
fix consistent misspelling of Berkeley
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Berkeley DB 4.1+ (optional)
The Big Rewrite. too many change to list them all. as opposed to earlier threats, BerkDB was not entirely dropped; i suppose the isync 0.7 -> 0.8 change had a reason, so i added an alternative UID storage scheme. note that BDB 4.0 is not sufficient, as the db->open function changed in an incompatible way ... i updated the debian packaging except for a changelog entry. note that i removed the upgrade blurb, as upstream now has a smooth upgrade path down to at least isync 0.4.
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OpenSSL for TLS/SSL support (optional)
list more deps (sasl and zlib)
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Cyrus SASL (optional)
zlib (optional)
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The Big Rewrite. too many change to list them all. as opposed to earlier threats, BerkDB was not entirely dropped; i suppose the isync 0.7 -> 0.8 change had a reason, so i added an alternative UID storage scheme. note that BDB 4.0 is not sufficient, as the db->open function changed in an incompatible way ... i updated the debian packaging except for a changelog entry. note that i removed the upgrade blurb, as upstream now has a smooth upgrade path down to at least isync 0.4.
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* Installation
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make build instructions more explicit
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./autogen.sh (only when building from git)
The Big Rewrite. too many change to list them all. as opposed to earlier threats, BerkDB was not entirely dropped; i suppose the isync 0.7 -> 0.8 change had a reason, so i added an alternative UID storage scheme. note that BDB 4.0 is not sufficient, as the db->open function changed in an incompatible way ... i updated the debian packaging except for a changelog entry. note that i removed the upgrade blurb, as upstream now has a smooth upgrade path down to at least isync 0.4.
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./configure
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make
sudo make install
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The Big Rewrite. too many change to list them all. as opposed to earlier threats, BerkDB was not entirely dropped; i suppose the isync 0.7 -> 0.8 change had a reason, so i added an alternative UID storage scheme. note that BDB 4.0 is not sufficient, as the db->open function changed in an incompatible way ... i updated the debian packaging except for a changelog entry. note that i removed the upgrade blurb, as upstream now has a smooth upgrade path down to at least isync 0.4.
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* Help
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The Big Rewrite. too many change to list them all. as opposed to earlier threats, BerkDB was not entirely dropped; i suppose the isync 0.7 -> 0.8 change had a reason, so i added an alternative UID storage scheme. note that BDB 4.0 is not sufficient, as the db->open function changed in an incompatible way ... i updated the debian packaging except for a changelog entry. note that i removed the upgrade blurb, as upstream now has a smooth upgrade path down to at least isync 0.4.
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Please see the man page for complete documentation.
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