Bug#434567: ...or at least warn that there are unsynced folders?

[Steve McIntyre]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 02:22:18PM +0200, Martin Krafft wrote:
>also sprach Guido Günther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.07.26.2115 +0200]:
>> > It would be nice if offlineimap could take new local folders and
>> > push them to the IMAP server, ideally controlled by an option.
>> I wonder if it isn't actually a bug that offlineimap ignores locally
>> created folders silently?
>
>Why? Does it promise that it does anywhere?

If it helps, I run the attached script regularly on my clients from
cron to warn me if I've created new folders and need to create them on
the server too.

-- 
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"This dress doesn't reverse." -- Alden Spiess

#!/bin/sh

cd ~

HOST=mail.einval.com
LOC="/home/steve-mail/Home-mail/Inbox/."
MAILDIR="Home-mail"

for file in `find $MAILDIR -name cur -type d`
do
    FOLDER=`echo $file | sed "s?/cur\\$??g;s?^$MAILDIR/??g;s?/?.?g"`
        STATE=`find ~/.offlineimap/state -type f -name $FOLDER | wc -l`
    if [ $STATE -eq 0 ] ; then 
        case $FOLDER in
            *search-folder*|INBOX|Inbox)
            # Ignore
                ;;
            *)
                LIST="$LIST $FOLDER"
                ;;
            esac
    fi
done

if [ "$LIST"x != ""x ] ; then
    echo "New mail folders have been created locally."
    echo "Please run the following to create them on the IMAP server now"
    echo "and then sync a couple more times:"
    echo
    echo "ssh $HOST \""
    for DIR in $LIST
    do
        echo "mkdir $LOC$DIR; \\"
        echo "mkdir $LOC$DIR/cur; \\"
        echo "mkdir $LOC$DIR/new; \\"
        echo "mkdir $LOC$DIR/tmp; \\"
    done
    echo "\""
fi