Re: OfflineImap 3.0

[Martijn Pieters <mj@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 07:46:26PM +0200, dLux wrote:
> This bug appears when you synchronize from imap to the Maildir, and
> delete the messages _in the synchronization state_. The following error
> message appears:
> 
> Thread 'Folder sync SPAM[.INBOX.SUXXMAIL]' terminated with exception:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/offlineimap/threadutil.py", line 87, 
> in run
>     Thread.run(self)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/threading.py", line 396, in run
>     apply(self.__target, self.__args, self.__kwargs)
>   File "/usr/bin/offlineimap", line 221, in syncfolder
>     localfolder.syncmessagesto(statusfolder)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/offlineimap/folder/Base.py", line 
> 263, in syncmessagesto
>     self.syncmessagesto_copy(dest, applyto)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/offlineimap/folder/Base.py", line 
> 209, in syncmessagesto_copy
>     self.copymessageto(uid, applyto)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/offlineimap/folder/Base.py", line 
> 175, in copymessageto
>     message = self.getmessage(uid)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/offlineimap/folder/Maildir.py", line 
> 126, in getmessage
>     file = open(filename, 'rt')
> IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 
> '/home/dlux/Maildir/.INBOX.SUXXMAIL/new/1026668164_0.10212.dl,U=256,FMD5=30399ee6e886557b26fff27f2d79f556:2,'
> 
> This is not a problem if your email reader is offline while you
> synchronize, but I don't want to quit from my mutt when I does
> synchronization... I am using this software over an 56k modem, so it
> takes 1-2 minutes to do synchronization. It is not good that I cannot
> touch the maildir which is in synchronization state.

Hmm, I was under the impression that Mutt wouldn't purge messages when
synching takes place. Still, offlineimap should be more robust in the face
of local and remote problems.

I am not yet familiar enough with offlineimap IMAP and Maildir code to
comment much beyond this.

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