On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 05:10:49PM +0100, Sean Hammond wrote: > Hi, I'm using mbsync to pull a lot of email (several GB) from my gmail > account to a local maildir. It seems to be working fine, but it has > printed a number of warnings and I wanted to check that these are safe > to ignore? mbsync has stopped mid-pull with these messages: > > "IMAP error: unexpected BYE response: [OVERQUOTA] Account exceeded > command or bandwidth limits." > that seems quite expected given your usage.
> After this one I tried using the program `trickle` to throttle > mbsync's download speed, but that caused mbsync to freeze (using no > cpu or bandwidth, not giving any output) for a few hours until I > killed it. > try the master branch - it has proper timeout handling. > I've now put `PipelineDepth 1` in my .mbsyncrc instead, and that seems > to work just fine. > a less drastical limit like 50 may still work, and would be considerably faster. > "IMAP error: unexpected BYE response: System Error" mbsync sometimes > exits with this error, it seems to continue working again fine if I just > start the command again, and I'm happy to run it in a while loop. > i'm fairly sure google finds a nice stack trace in their logs every time this happens. ^^ > "Warning: lost track of 57473 pulled message(s)" is printed whenever I > restart mbsync after one of the above messages stops it, or after a > severed network connection or a ctrl-c from me stops it (the number > is different every time). > the worst that can happen is that you get some duplicate mails if the loss of tracking has profound reasons (we actually found a few mbsync and server bugs this way). usually, it just means as much as "the connection was interrupted. you wasted some bandwidth." > I wanted to check whether it's ok for mbsync to be ctrl-c'd and to stop > with the above errors and just be restarted again? It won't miss any > emails, or leave any in a partial state, etc? > it's just fine. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Command Line: Reinvented for Modern Developers Did the resurgence of CLI tooling catch you by surprise? Reconnect with the command line and become more productive. Learn the new .NET and ASP.NET CLI. Get your free copy! http://sdm.link/telerik _______________________________________________ isync-devel mailing list isync-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/isync-devel
