On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:28:59 +0100, hollunder <[email protected]> wrote: > Excerpts from Steve Goldman's message of 2010-02-19 21:57:02 +0100: > > Excerpts from Steve Goldman's message of Thu Feb 18 17:56:53 -0500 2010: > > > > > > Hey guys, > > > > > > Thanks for the wild ride, but I need to switch to something more > > > reliable. Not sure if there are incompatibilities with my version of > > > ruby or whatnot, but I'm getting ridiculous CPU usage and random seg > > > faults. It's too much stress for me. And after a crash when I > > > restart, I have a random collection of seventy or so messages in my > > > inbox, even though it was zero when I crashed. > > > > > > This combined with not being able to convert to xapian without a seg > > > fault... > > > > > > Maybe I'll be back some day. > > > > > > Good luck. > > > > In case anyone was worried, I'm back. I took matters into my own > > hand. > > > > Essentially, I was dealing with a slow IMAP server. Since sup doesn't > > cache IMAP messages locally, this gave me huge headaches when trying > > to sync with the server during busy times. > > > > The remedy was to download all the messages off the server into a > > local mbox file and to use fetchmail/procmail to poll for new IMAP > > messages and append them to the mbox file. > > > > As a result, I was able to successfully use sup-sync to build a xapian > > index and everything is lightning fast. Life is good... for now. > > > > Thanks. > > -- > > > > Steve Goldman > > [email protected] > > > > T: 212.219.6014 > > F: 212.219.6007 > > > > Tower Research Capital, LLC > > 377 Broadway, 11th Fl. > > New York, NY 10013 > > I think most of us just use offlineimap.
I don't use offlineimap, I've tried it but it was not reliable enough for my amount of messages. I stick to mpop and mboxes. -- Nicolas Pouillard http://nicolaspouillard.fr _______________________________________________ sup-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/sup-talk
