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* [sup-talk] offlineimap
@ 2008-04-03 16:40 Grant Hollingworth
  2008-04-03 20:59 ` Richard Heycock
  2008-04-04  8:26 ` Marcus Williams
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Grant Hollingworth @ 2008-04-03 16:40 UTC (permalink / raw)


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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* [sup-talk] offlineimap
  2008-04-03 16:40 [sup-talk] offlineimap Grant Hollingworth
@ 2008-04-03 20:59 ` Richard Heycock
  2008-04-04  6:56   ` Cameron Matheson
  2008-04-04 13:47   ` Grant Hollingworth
  2008-04-04  8:26 ` Marcus Williams
  1 sibling, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Richard Heycock @ 2008-04-03 20:59 UTC (permalink / raw)


Excerpts from Grant Hollingworth's message of Fri Apr 04 03:40:36 +1100 2008:
> 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?

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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* [sup-talk] offlineimap
  2008-04-03 20:59 ` Richard Heycock
@ 2008-04-04  6:56   ` Cameron Matheson
  2008-04-04 13:48     ` Grant Hollingworth
  2008-04-04 13:47   ` Grant Hollingworth
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Cameron Matheson @ 2008-04-04  6:56 UTC (permalink / raw)


Excerpts from Richard Heycock's message of Thu Apr 03 14:59:56 -0600 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

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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* [sup-talk] offlineimap
  2008-04-03 16:40 [sup-talk] offlineimap Grant Hollingworth
  2008-04-03 20:59 ` Richard Heycock
@ 2008-04-04  8:26 ` Marcus Williams
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Marcus Williams @ 2008-04-04  8:26 UTC (permalink / raw)


On 3.4.2008, Grant Hollingworth wrote:
> How are people using offlineimap? Is it always running, or by cron, or in a
> before-poll?

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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* [sup-talk] offlineimap
  2008-04-03 20:59 ` Richard Heycock
  2008-04-04  6:56   ` Cameron Matheson
@ 2008-04-04 13:47   ` Grant Hollingworth
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Grant Hollingworth @ 2008-04-04 13:47 UTC (permalink / raw)


* 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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* [sup-talk] offlineimap
  2008-04-04  6:56   ` Cameron Matheson
@ 2008-04-04 13:48     ` Grant Hollingworth
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Grant Hollingworth @ 2008-04-04 13:48 UTC (permalink / raw)


* Cameron Matheson [Fri Apr 04 02:56:28 -0400 2008]:

> 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?)

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


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