Subject: [sup-talk] offlineimap

From: [email-masked] (Grant Hollingworth)
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:40:36 -0400

I switched from IMAP to maildir via offlineimap. So much faster!

How are people using offlineimap? Is it always running, or by cron, or in a
before-poll?

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From: [email-masked] (Richard Heycock)
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:59:56 +1100

> How are people using offlineimap? Is it always running, or by cron, or in a

I run mine from cron.

Having said that offlineimap causes me a great deal of pain; when it works it
works well but when it doesn't (which is fairly often) it's a pain. Oh and it
won't tell you what the problem is :-( Unfortunately there doesn't really
seem to be much else about

Just my two cents.

rgh.

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From: [email-masked] (Marcus Williams)
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:26:10 +0100

> How are people using offlineimap? Is it always running, or by cron, or in a

I tend to ssh into wherever I run sup and run screen. I've set screen
up to start sup and kick off offlineimap. Works like a charm. That way
you can poke offlineimap if you want to poll for some reason.

Works well from cron as well on my work machine.

Marcus

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From: [email-masked] (Cameron Matheson)
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:56:28 -0600

> seem to be much else about

I haven't tried offlineimap yet.  I'm using getmail right now, which has
gone really smooth.  What advantages does offlineimap provide for the
sup crowd (there shouldn't be any changes to the maildir to push back to
the imap account, right?)

Cam

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From: [email-masked] (Grant Hollingworth)
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:47:37 -0400

* Richard Heycock [Thu Apr 03 16:59:56 -0400 2008]:

> Having said that offlineimap causes me a great deal of pain; when it
> works it works well but when it doesn't (which is fairly often) it's a
> pain. Oh and it won't tell you what the problem is :-( Unfortunately
> there doesn't really seem to be much else about

Yeah, I don't think I've seen any error messages... just backtraces.

The only big problem I've had is with a memory error when copying large
messages. The problem is known [1] and fixed [2] in Python, but the current
stable version (2.5.2) doesn't include the fix.

I made the two one-line changes myself and now offlineimap is happy:
http://svn.python.org/view/python/branches/release25-maint/Lib/imaplib.py?rev=61007&r1=51333&r2=61007
http://svn.python.org/view/python/branches/release25-maint/Lib/socket.py?rev=61009&r1=54544&r2=61009

[1] http://software.complete.org/software/issues/show/20
[2] http://bugs.python.org/issue1389051

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From: [email-masked] (Grant Hollingworth)
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:48:21 -0400

> the imap account, right?)

No changes yet. I'd like to get sup at least marking messages as read in
maildir sources.