offlineimap.conf wording tweaks

Clarify and improve wording in minor ways.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
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Sebastian Spaeth
2012-01-07 18:03:21 +01:00
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@ -238,37 +238,37 @@ remoterepository = RemoteExample
# maxsize = 2000000
# When you are starting to sync an already existing account yuo can tell offlineimap
# to sync messages from only the last x days. When you do this messages older than x
# days will be completely ignored. This can be useful for importing existing accounts
# when you do not want to download large amounts of archive email.
# When you are starting to sync an already existing account you can tell
# offlineimap to sync messages from only the last x days. When you do
# this messages older than x days will be completely ignored. This can
# be useful for importing existing accounts when you do not want to
# download large amounts of archive email.
#
# Messages older than maxage days will not be synced, their flags will
# not be changed, they will not be deleted etc. For offlineimap it will be like these
# messages do not exist. This will perform an IMAP search in the case of IMAP or Gmail
# and therefor requires that the server support server side searching. This will
# calculate the earliest day that would be included in the search and include all
# messages from that day until today. e.g. maxage = 3 to sync only the last 3 days mail
# maxage = 3
# not be changed, they will not be deleted etc. For offlineimap it will
# be like these messages do not exist. This will perform an IMAP search
# in the case of IMAP or Gmail and therefor requires that the server
# support server side searching. This will calculate the earliest day
# that would be included in the search and include all messages from
# that day until today. e.g. maxage = 3 to sync only the last 3 days
# mail
#
# maxage =
# Maildir format uses colon (:) separator between uniq name and info.
# Maildir file format uses colon (:) separator between uniq name and info.
# Unfortunatelly colon is not allowed character in windows file name. If you
# enable maildir-windows-compatible option, offlineimap will be able to store
# messages on windows drive, but you will probably loose compatibility with
# other programs working with the maildir
# maildir-windows-compatible = no
#
#maildir-windows-compatible = no
[Repository LocalExample]
# This is one of the two repositories that you'll work with given the
# above example. Each repository requires a "type" declaration.
#
# The types supported are Maildir and IMAP.
#
# Each repository requires a "type" declaration. The types supported for
# local repositories are Maildir and IMAP.
type = Maildir
@ -278,12 +278,12 @@ type = Maildir
localfolders = ~/Test
# You can specify the "path separator character" used for your Maildir
# folders. This is inserted in-between the components of the tree.
# It defaults to ".". If you want your Maildir folders to be nested,
# set it to "/".
sep = .
# You can specify the "folder separator character" used for your Maildir
# folders. It is inserted in-between the components of the tree. If you
# want your folders to be nested directories, set it to "/". 'sep' is
# ignored for IMAP repositories, as it is queried automatically.
#
#sep = .
# Some users may not want the atime (last access time) of folders to be
# modified by OfflineIMAP. If 'restoreatime' is set to yes, OfflineIMAP
@ -291,11 +291,11 @@ sep = .
# folder to their original value after each sync.
#
# In nearly all cases, the default should be fine.
#
#restoreatime = no
restoreatime = no
[Repository RemoteExample]
# And this is the remote repository. We only support IMAP or Gmail here.
type = IMAP