Resync recommandations and Duplicates about imapsync

[gilleslamiral]

How about the other default [Gmail]/* folders?
Good point, that makes sense indeed.

In which order then?

For now, I thought about this order
'[Gmail]/Sent Mail', '[Gmail]/Important', '[Gmail]/Starred', '[Gmail]/Drafts', '[Gmail]/Trash', '[Gmail]/Spam', '[Gmail]/Chats', '[Gmail]/All Mail'

The rule is: if a message is in several folders in this list then the first folder will be the destination.

[gilleslamiral]

Option --delete2duplicates deletes duplicates in the same folder, not across folders.

What would you recommend to clean the Inbox from duplicates?

Nothing really good.
You can try --delete2 --search "SENTBEFORE 31-Mar-2024" if the new emails started to come after 31-Mar-2024

Do you think it might be relevant to include --folderlast 'INBOX' (and maybe even --folderlast '[Gmail]/Important' too) to the default --gmail config so that it does not happen to other people?

Yes, it sounds good.
How about the other default [Gmail]/* folders?

[Gmail]/Chats
[Gmail]/Drafts
[Gmail]/Sent Mail
[Gmail]/Spam
[Gmail]/Starred
[Gmail]/Trash

[keomabrun]

You can try --delete2 --search "SENTBEFORE 31-Mar-2024" if the new emails started to come after 31-Mar-2024

ok, I will do this 👍

How about the other default [Gmail]/* folders?

Good point, that makes sense indeed.

Just to make sure I fully understand this: the option --skipcrossduplicates that is embedded with --gmail1 did not prevent the cross-duplicates to be created in my case. Is this because the duplicate detection is calculated on the fly, folder by folder, and thus dependent on folder ordering ?
Would it make sense, or be over-complexifying the system to have a --check-first option or similar, to tell imapsync to check duplicated over all folders before running the actual sync ? (I have been using rclone recently and this feature was very useful for file transfers).

Thank you for the swift answers !

[gilleslamiral]

Just to make sure I fully understand this: the option --skipcrossduplicates that is embedded with --gmail1 did not prevent the cross-duplicates from being created in my case. Is this because the duplicate detection is calculated on the fly, folder by folder, and thus dependent on folder ordering?

Yes.

Would it make sense, or be over-complexifying the system to have a --check-first option or similar, to tell imapsync to check duplicated over all folders before running the actual sync ? (I have been using rclone recently and this feature was very useful for file transfers).

It's too complicated for me.
Folder by folder is a design decision I made initially and it would be complicated to switch to a two-passes behavior and even more to make this two-passes behavior an option.

[keomabrun]

For now, I thought about this order
'[Gmail]/Sent Mail', '[Gmail]/Important', '[Gmail]/Starred', '[Gmail]/Drafts', '[Gmail]/Trash', '[Gmail]/Spam', '[Gmail]/Chats', '[Gmail]/All Mail'

Perfect 🆗

Folder by folder is a design decision I made initially and it would be complicated to switch to a two-passes behavior and even more to make this two-passes behavior an option.

Alright, that makes a lot of sense !

Thank you again for the answers 🙌