[SOLVED] An offlineimap question

Greetings,
I am trying to set up offlineimap with a Gmail account. Due to a network issue during the initial sync, I was only able to download ~50% of the mail stored with Google (I had to SIGINT, since offlineimap didn't seem to recognize that the had connection restored). My question is: if I were to evoke "offlineimap -o" again, how would the sync occur? Would I be pushing the incomplete local repo to Gmail (and hence deleting half the mail in the account), or would the local repo continue to be grown by downloading the to-be-copied mail presently on the Google server?
Thanks! And, yes, I did try reading the f manual; I can't work out how to read the local cache files (~/.offlineimap/...) though.
Last edited by tomgg (2013-09-08 10:40:26)

I'm sure you wouldn't have given any wrong info (you appear to be a well privileged poster) but I will wait until I can confirm this myself (don't want to lose all my email!). Can you explain the local cache files for me? The files I can find look like
n-1:S
n:
n+1:S
for some integer n; so, the integer is obviously some number Google uses to index the mail, but what is the "S" or its possible variants?

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Caio wrote:
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