make sqlite status cache the default

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
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Nicolas Sebrecht
2016-04-09 21:06:38 +02:00
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@ -200,16 +200,20 @@ done this yet, do it :). See the folderfilter section in offlineimap.conf.
3. The cache.
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The default status cache is a plain text file that will write out the complete
file for each single new message (or even changed flag) to a temporary file.
If you have plenty of files in a folder, this is a few hundred kilo to
megabytes for each mail and is bound to make things slower. I recommend to use
the sqlite backend for that. See the status_backend = sqlite setting in the
offlineimap.conf. You will need to have python-sqlite installed in order to
use this. This will save you plenty of disk activity. Do note that
the sqlite backend is still considered experimental as it has only been
included recently (although a loss of your status cache should not be a
tragedy as that file can be rebuilt automatically)
OfflineImap caches the state of the synchronisation to e.g. be able to determine
if a mail has been added or deleted on either side.
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The historical status cache is a plain text file that writes out the complete
file for each single new message (or even changed flag) to a temporary file. If
you have plenty of files in a folder, this is a few hundred kilo to megabytes
for each mail and is bound to make things slow. The default status cache uses
sqlite. This saves plenty of disk activity. The sqlite engine and the Python
sqlite module must installed. See the status_backend = plain setting in the
offlineimap.conf.
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If you switch the backend from plain to sqlite, you may want to delete the old
cache directory in <metadata>/Account-<account>/LocalStatus manually once
you are sure that things work.
4. Use quick sync.
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