Subject: [sup-talk] Need help with OfflineIMAP integration and Iconv errors

From: [email-masked] (Dominic LoBue)
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 18:54:58 -0700

Hello,

Let me start off by saying that I am incredibly impressed with sup.
I'm really looking forward to being able to replace Outlook with Sup,
but I'm running into some problems that are preventing a complete
transition.

The first problem I'm having is when ferret is parsing through my
emails to build its indicies I get numerous "warning: error
(Iconv::IllegalSequence) decoding message body from X" errors, This
prevents a lot of my email from showing up at all. Iconv has this
problem from attempting to convert from Windows-1252, UTF-8, and
iso-8859-1. While I doubt its the cause of the problem, I am
downloading my email from the Exchange 2003 server at work via
OfflineIMAP.

The other major problem I'm running into is I can't figure out how to
get Sup and OfflineIMAP talking together correctly so that labels and
Seen flags are uploaded back to the Exchange server. I read that there
were no plans to support uploading meta-data back to IMAP servers, so
I was hoping that OfflineIMAP would sidestep the problem entirely. I
searched the archives but I didn't find any examples of working
configs.  If anyone can point me to a working example I'd greatly
appreciate it.

I've tried both the latest official release and the latest revision
uploaded to github as of 20 minutes ago.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Dominic LoBue

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From: [email-masked] (William Morgan)
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:05:07 -0700

Hi Dominic,

> Let me start off by saying that I am incredibly impressed with sup.

Great! That's nice to hear.

> prevents a lot of my email from showing up at all.

This is just a warning when iconv gets finnicky. It shouldn't prevent
email from being indexed or from appearing.

> I read that there were no plans to support uploading meta-data back to
> IMAP servers, so I was hoping that OfflineIMAP would sidestep the
> problem entirely. I searched the archives but I didn't find any
> examples of working configs.  If anyone can point me to a working
> example I'd greatly appreciate it.

Maildir doesn't help you either. Sup doesn't export its message state
back to the source for any source type, except for certain limited cases
with sup-sync-back.
-- 
William <wmorgan-sup at masanjin.net>