mailsync(1) Synchronize IMAP mailboxes

SYNOPSIS

mailsync [options] channel
or
mailsync [options] store
or
mailsync [options] channel store

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the mailsync command.

mailsync is a way of keeping a collection of mailboxes synchronized. The mailboxes may be on the local filesystem or on an IMAP server.

There are three invocations of mailsync:

The first will synchronize two sets of mailboxes - in mailsync referred to as "stores".

The second form will list the contents of a store. It's usage is recommended before synchronizing two stores to check whether mailsync is seeing what you are expecting it to see.

The third form will show you what has changed in a store since the last sync.

OPTIONS

A summary of options is included below.
-f file
Use alternate config file.
-n
Don't delete messages when synchronizing.
-D
Delete any empty mailboxes after synchronizing..
-m
Show from, subject, etc. of messages that are killed or moved when synchronzing.
-M
Also show message-ids (turns on -m).
-s
Says what would be done without doing it (turns on -n). Attention: this will change the "Seen" flag of emails and will create new, empty mailboxes in order to be able to compare them.
-v
Show IMAP chatter.
-vb
Show warning about braindammaged message ids
-vw
Show warnings
-vp
Show RFC 822 mail parsing errors
-h
Show help.
-d
Show debug info. -di Debug/log IMAP protocol telemetry. -dc Debug config.
-t mid
Use mailsync with specified message-id algorithm. Currently you have the choice between md5 and msgid (default). msgid uses the Message-ID in the mail header to identify a message. md5 calculates a MD5 hash from the "From", "To", "Subject", "Date" and "Message-ID" headers and uses that as message identifier.

If you use mailclients and servers that allow empty Message-IDs (f.ex. in mail drafts) then you should use the md5 algorithm.

AUTHOR

Originally written by Jaldhar H. Vyas <[email protected]> for the Debian GNU/Linux system. Updates by T. Pospisek <[email protected]>.