Imapsync output question

["David Newman" <DNewman at synacor dot com>]

I’ve recently tested ImapSync with great success. I’m very impressed with this script.

 

I’ve built a wrapper perl script that calls imapsync then processes prefs, contacts and filters.

One small issue I’ve noticed is that when I call imapsync from within my perl script, I’m redirecting the output to a file with the “>>”

So for example:

 

Imapsync [flag, flag, flag] >> output.log

 

When I run my script which runs for 2 hours, on the average it transfers 90 gig of data. Imapsync does a wonderful job in migrating the email.

Most of the log files produced are complete with all output expected. There are a number of times the log files are not complete.

Some of the log files stop in the middle of printing a folder and it’s email.

 

I’m forking 50 connection of imapsync at a time. I believe this is a buffering issue but how would I resolve this issue if the buffering is actually from imapsync itself.

How would I flush imapsyncs print buffer?

 

Thanks.

David Newman