NAME

       mailsync - 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.

SEE ALSO

       There is more documentation  in  /usr/share/doc/mailsync  ,  and  in  /usr/share/doc/libc-
       clientxxxxxx/internal.txt

AUTHOR

       Originally  written  by  Jaldhar  H.  Vyas  <jaldhar@debian.org>  for the Debian GNU/Linux
       system. Updates by T. Pospisek <tpo_deb@sourcepole.ch>.

                                        February 15, 2003                             MAILSYNC(1)