offlineimap is slow during the initial sync

[Enrico Zini <zinie@cs.unibo.it>]

Hello.

I'm setting up offlineimap to synchronize two mail databases archived in
mbox and accessed using dovecot-imapd.  At the first run, it's copying a
lot of messages around creating duplicates, and it's extremely slow
(it's processing a 30Mb mbox and it's been eworkking for more than 2
hours on that).

I imagine that creating duplicates is somehow part of it's working, but
I don't know about the slowness: maybe it's because of the mbox format?
If that is the case, are there tools for converting back and forth from
mbox to maildir?  Would they help?

Ciao,

Enrico

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