[Dovecot] DSYNC needs a lot more documentation

[Timo Sirainen]

On 25.8.2010, at 20.41, Henrique Fernandes wrote:

> Timo, for dsync, it does not require to have dovecot running, but dsync does
> require that dovecot and shared libs and etc are installed in the
> destination ssh server right ?

It needs to have dsync and usually doveconf installed and runnable. Usually that also means the shared libs, yes, but you can use configure --without-shared-libs to build the binaries without using shared libs.

> When dsync are sync mailbox format, when an email are deleted, it only
> delete the other part from where it is sync, or it does transfer the full
> mailbox like rsync does ?

It does only minimal data transfer. It could do even less than it does now, but basically now it just sends a list of messages (not their contents) and then the other side figures out that some of the messages in the list are deleted.