Re: Hanging connections

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

First a message to all -- I have been swamped with other things over the
holidays, but will now try to get back into the swing of things
OfflineIMAP-wise.

On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 01:14:48PM -0800, Jared Rhine wrote:
> I've mentioned in the past that I occasionally get hanging offlineimap
> processes.  My offlineimap (v3.99.3) (running under daemontools) is
> running with the following parameters:

First things first -- can you upgrade to 3.99.5?  I believe that this will
at least fix your CRAM-MD5 problem.

It seems that your TCP stack is not recognizing when the connection goes
down.  It should detect this condition after a few minutes (at most), and
send back an error code to OfflineIMAP.

Stranger, though, is that you have holdconnectionopen = no.  As long as the
connection goes down between syncs, this should not cause any problem.

Do your DNS servers change when your connection resets?

> A final suggestion, offlineimap should output a debug line when it
> terminates normally.  A good offlineimap run current just ends with

Good suggestion.

> 2002-12-31 07:21:07.736447500     msg = self.getpassword()
> 2002-12-31 07:21:07.736450500   File 
> "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/offlineimap/imapserver.py", line 84, in 
> getpassword
> 2002-12-31 07:21:07.736456500     self.passworderror)
> 2002-12-31 07:21:07.736459500 TypeError: getpass() takes exactly 3 arguments 
> (4 given)

Weird...  did you have any trouble inputting passwords for this account?