Re: [imapsync] Size/Message Limitation?

["Phil Pearl (Lobbes)" <phil at zimbra dot com>]

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> Hello Dereck,
> 
> > $RCSfile: imapsync,v $ $Revision: 1.267 $ $Date: 2008/10/07 11:36:02
> $ 
> >  and the module Mail::IMAPClient version used here is 2.2.9
> 
> I suggest the Phil advice: use latest imapsync  1.286
> with latest 3.x Mail::IMAPClient

This should help, perhaps significantly.  With that, you can take advantage of the reconnect logic that is available, I recommend:
  --reconnectretry1 1 --reconnectretry2 1

> I don't know if it will solve your 10**6 issue.
> 
> > Command line used :
> > /usr/bin/imapsync --host1 imap.gmail.com --ssl1 
> > --user1 <login1> --password1  PWCHANGED --host2 127.0.0.1 --user2 <login2> 
> > --password2  PWCHANGED --prefix2 INBOX.ENG. --authmech1 LOGIN --authmech2 
> > LOGIN --syncinternaldates --folder Inbox --skipsize --nofoldersizes
> > --useheader Message-ID
> 
> You can add --fast

Just remember that --fast will not sync flags, which may be OK depending upon your needs.

> 
> > If I filter out some mail to different GMAIL labels, I can sync the
> > mail in those folders just fine up in range of 10,000 (thats the
> > most I have tested) emails.  If I try to sync the [GMAIL]\All Mail
> > or put all archived mail back into INBOX, imapsync says 0 mail was
> > processed and 0 mail skipped... eventhough its has calculated there
> > to be over a million messages.
> 
> It's a clearly a bug but I can't reproduce it.
> 
> Can you try the --maxage option. May be it is a way to avoid moving
> your messages by hand in the 10000 folder.
> 
> > debug and debugimap outputs loads of information, but does nothing
> > as to explain why it doesn't process the emails.
> 
> No idea: my be memory, too long imap request/response ?.
> You're the first record talking about 10^6 messages in one folder.

The newer Mail::IMAPClient should hopefully provide better error messages on failure and possibly some better logging in debug too.  There are certainly still bugs so please report back if you give it a try and things fail!

Phil