Thanks Oswald. It's going to be pretty painful to sync all of my mail from GMail again, but it is preferable to remaining with offlineimap.
Cheers, Dolan On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 08:54:28AM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 03:24:53PM -0400, Dolan Murvihill wrote: > > I am sure this is a basic mistake, > > > yes. it's already in the subject line. mbsync simply doesn't support > that, rather inherently. it uses IMAP UIDs for the message mapping, so > it can't work with pre-existing channels that lack it (in a format it > understands, which only it can create). > > it would be possible to reconstruct the message mapping from message-ids > (which is what offlineimap does, iirc), but that would be a non-trivial > additional feature on top of the core functionality, and is not going to > happen anytime soon. > > the only reasonable way to migrate is to ensure that offlineimap synced > all relevant mail to the server, delete the local maildirs, and start > from scratch. > > the error message you got is kinda non-obvious, though. it suggests that > your maildirs already had a UID scheme similar to mbsync's, which, > depending on how it came to be, could become a problem. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ isync-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/isync-devel
