this avoids the ugly and error-prone repeated reading of the state
after a failure.
cmpbox() had to be made non-destructive on the box state.
readchan() had to be created.
parse the test data into hierarchical structures instead of using it in
its raw form. this is semantically cleaner and allows us to change the
input format more easily.
while at it, add/fix some licenses/copyrights/comments:
- it makes no sense to have a GPL exception in scripts
- ted did not contribute to the man page
- tst_timers is not part of the mbsync executable
- explicitly put the build system under GPL and add copyrights
to test async operation of the syncing core while using the synchronous
maildir driver, we add a mode to the proxy driver where it queues
callback invocations to the next main loop iteration.
delay the creation of the new state and journal until there is actually
something interesting to write. this saves some cpu cycles and prolongs
ssd life a whee bit.
now that expiration order is determined by a single loop ordered by
far-side UIDs, it is no longer necessary to accurately track the highest
seen UID.
as a side effect, this fixes a problem reported (way too long ago) by
Yuri D'Elia: we failed to up newmaxuid for messages we produced
ourselves, so we would keep enumerating the same messages until we also
propagated externally generated messages from that mailbox - which might
have been never for the server side of archive/trash mailboxes.
the underlying metaphor refers to an inhumane practice, so using it
casually is rightfully offensive to many people. it isn't even a
particularly apt metaphor, as it suggests a strict hierarchy that is
counter to mbsync's highly symmetrical mode of operation.
the far/near terminology has been chosen as the replacement, as it is a
natural fit for the push/pull terminology. on the downside, due to these
not being nouns, a few uses are a bit awkward, and several others had to
be amended to include 'side'. also, it's conceptually quite close to
remote/local, which matches the typical use case, but is maybe a bit too
suggestive of actually non-existing limitations.
the new f/n suffixes of the -C/-R/-X options clash with pre-existing
options, so direct concatenation of short options is even less practical
than before (some suffixes of -D already clashed), but doing that leads
to unreadable command lines anyway.
as with previous deprecations, all pre-existing command line and config
options keep working, but yield a warning. the state files are silently
upgraded.
an effect of 7ce658d is that we can index messages by UID rather than
content (or more specifically, subject). apart from being cleaner, it
allows duplicated subjects.
on modern systems, this makes it likely to end up on tmpfs, which is a
lot faster and ssd-friendlier.
the symlink is not deleted at the end, to minimize fs churn. that means
it will be dangling after a reboot, which gets fixed in the next run.
the only legitimate "deviant" UID is zero, meaning "no message". this
can be futher qualified by additional flags in the sync record, rather
than using magic values for the UID. in fact, the zero UID (so far
meaning only "expunged") was already optionally qualifed with "expired".
as a side effect, driver->store_msg() now returns 0 instead of -2 for
unknown UIDs. this was a hack to avoid translating the value later
on, but it made the api horrible, and now it's superflous in the first
place.
this ensures stable results when the boxes are used with different
OPEN_FLAGS (which will happen in a subsequent commit), at the negligible
cost of removing the implicit test of the maildir driver's ability to
enumerate new messages.
introduce recognition of $USE_VALGRIND to run all mbsync invocations
through valgrind.
this also removes the seemingly purposeless --log-fd=3 indirection.
