git Thunderbird Synching

git Thunderbird Synching

[Nicholas LaRoche]

Has anyone tried to synch a Thunderbird profile between two computers 
with git?

I want to do something like this with my main profile, but I'm concerned 
that if I send/receive email on either machine independently that there 
will be corruption in some of the files when I push back to my main box.

Regards,
Nick

Re: git Thunderbird Synching

[Sitaram Chamarty]

On 2009-01-14, Nicholas LaRoche <nlaroche@vt.edu> wrote:
> I want to do something like this with my main profile, but I'm concerned 
> that if I send/receive email on either machine independently that there 
> will be corruption in some of the files when I push back to my main box.

The mbox files making up the actual mail are probably safe
enough, assuming you do the git operations with TB shut
down, not running.  In effect, each message is one chunk of
code, and you're basically deleting or adding them.  Ugly,
but it would probably work.

But I expect serious trouble with the MSF files that TB
maintains, symptoms being quick searches not working or
showing something in the message list pane and some other
unrelated message in the preview pane.

And that's if you can get git to merge them in the first
place -- which I very much doubt.  For all practical
purposes they're binary blobs.

So if you don't care about the MSF at all and can rebuild
them each time, this would work.

Otherwise IMAP is a better option :-)